The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

ISBN 10: 0241950422 / ISBN 13: 9780241950425

Published by PENGUIN, 1933

About this Item

: El guardián entre el centeno, conocido también como El cazador oculto, es una novela del escritor estadounidense J. D. Salinger. Publicada en 1951, la obra relata la historia de Holden Caulfield, un adolescente que es expulsado de su escuela preparatoria y decide pasar unos días en Nueva York antes de regresar a casa. A través de sus experiencias y reflexiones, Salinger explora temas como la alienación, la pérdida de la inocencia y la hipocresía de la sociedad adulta. La novela ha sido traducida a numerosos idiomas y ha vendido millones de copias en todo el mundo, convirtiéndose en un clásico de la literatura juvenil y una obra influyente en la cultura popular. EAN: 9780241950425 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Catcher in the Rye Autor: J. D. Salinger Editorial: Penguin Books Idioma: en Páginas: 240 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: PENGUIN
• Publication Date: 1933
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241950422
• ISBN 13: 9780241950425
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Aceptable

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Synopsis

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it''s relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ''phony'' aspects of society, and the ''phonies'' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it''s a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger''s style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you.

Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it deals with society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the clutch of a cliche.

Review

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.