J. D. Salinger

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield.

Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

The Catcher in the Rye

A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.

Franny and Zooey

Nine Stories

An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour

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A Perfect Day for Bananafish

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Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories set in twentieth-century New York.

Indhold: A perfect day for bananafish ; Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut ; The laughing man ; Down at the Dinghy ; Just before the war with the Eskimos ; For Esmé - with love and squalor ; Pretty mouth and green my eyes ; De Daumier-Smith's blue period ; Teddy.

For Esmé - with Love and Squalor

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Um dos romances mais revolucionários do século XX, O apanhador no campo de centeio é a representação definitiva da juventude na literatura. Com mais de 70 milhões de cópias vendidas desde seu lançamento em 1951, o livro influenciou e marcou gerações de leitores com sua visão crua da adolescência, sua prosa ágil e desbocada e seu humor feroz e anárquico. Esta nova edição que chega agora ao leitor brasileiro tem tradução do premiado Caetano W. Galindo e, pela primeira vez, traz a capa original de seu lançamento. É Natal, e Holden Caulfield conseguiu ser expulso de mais uma escola. Com uns trocados da venda de uma máquina de escrever e portando seu indefectível boné vermelho de caçador, o jovem traça um plano incerto: tomar um trem para Nova York e vagar por três dias pela grande cidade, adiando a volta à casa dos pais até que eles recebam a notícia da expulsão por alguém da escola. Seus dias e noites serão marcados por encontros confusos, e ocasionalmente comoventes, com estranhos, brigas com os tipos mais desprezíveis, encontros com ex-namoradas, visitas à sua irmã Phoebe -- a única criatura neste mundo que parece entendê-lo -- e por dúvidas que irão consumi-lo durante sua estadia, entre elas uma questão recorrente: afinal, para onde vão os patos do Central Park no inverno? Acima de todos esses fatos, preocupações e pensamentos, paira a inimitável voz de Holden, o adolescente raivoso e idealista que quer desbancar o mundo dos "fajutos", num turbilhão quase sem fim de ressentimento, humor, frases lapidares, insegurança, bravatas e rebelião juvenil.

O apanhador no campo de centeio

Phénomène littéraire sans équivalent depuis les années 50, J. D. Salinger reste le plus mystérieux des écrivains contemporains, et son chef-d'oeuvre, " L'attrape-coeurs ", roman de l'adolescence le plus lu du monde entier, est l'histoire d'une fugue, celle d'un garçon de la bourgeoisie new-yorkaise chassé de son collège trois jours avant Noël, qui n'ose pas rentrer chez lui et affronter ses parents. Trois jours de vagabondage et d'aventures cocasses, sordides ou émouvantes, d'incertitude et d'anxiété, à la recherche de soi-même et des autres. L'histoire éternelle d'un gosse perdu qui cherche des raisons de vivre dans un monde hostile et corrompu.

L'attrape-coeurs

Issu d'une famille aisée à New York, Holden Caulfield intègre le pensionnat Pencey Prep en Pennsylvanie. Mais, quand il est viré à la fin du semestre car il a " foiré en quatre matières ", il s'en va plus tôt que prévu pour quelques jours d'aventure. C'est ainsi qu'on devient son partenaire et confident dans une aventure de délinquance innocente. Même s'il n'a pas envie de raconter " toutes ces conneries ", c'est exactement ce qu'il va faire - heureusement pour nous, puisqu'on découvre une histoire captivante, un portrait incontournable de l'Amérique de l'après-guerre et l'un des personnages les plus aimés de la littérature. Holden passe son temps entre taxis, boîtes de jazz et les étrangers d'un New York transi de froid de l'époque McCarthy. C'est une ville parfois éblouissante, parfois ahurissante, mais toujours frappante, dans laquelle Holden essaie de fuir les " ploucs " et trouver sa place à lui. Quand il décide de partir, seul Phoebe, sa petite soeur et peut-être sa seule amie depuis la mort de son petit frère, Allie, veut l'accompagner. Avec un humour féroce pince-sans-rire et une innocence désarmante, Holden a ému des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde. Après soixante ans, L'Attrape-coeurs, premier et unique roman de J. D. Salinger, tient toujours la forme. Pourquoi un tel succès ? Objet de réflexions sur la souffrance de l'adolescence, la transition de l'enfance à l'âge adulte et toutes les questions existentielles qui nous traversent durant cette période, le livre reste un rite de passage pour les jeunes de tous âges.

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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.

J. D. Salinger

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