章节目录
Introduction 7 Biographical Sketch 9 The Story Behind the Story 16 List of Characters 21 Summary and Analysis 25 Critical Views 43 Carl F. Strauch on The Complexity of Holden's Character 43 Robert M. Slabey on Christian Themes and Symbols 47 Jonathan Baumbach on Spirituality 50 John M. Howell on T.S. Eliot's Influence 54 Warren French on Holden's Search for Tranquility 60 Duane Edwards on Holden as the Unreliable Narrator 64 Gerald Rosen on the Relevance of Buddhism 69 Edwin Haviland Miller on Mourning Allie Caulfield 74 Christopher Brookeman on Cultural Codes at Pencey Prep 78 Sanford Pinsker on the Protagonist-Narrator 82 Paul Alexander on Inventing Holden Caulfield 86 Pamela Hunt Steinle on Holden as a Version of the American Adam 89 Matt Evertson on Holden Caulfield's Longing to Construct a New Home 94 Yasuhiro Takeuchi on the Carnivalesque 99 Works by J.D. Salinger 106 Annotated Bibliography 107 Contributors 117 Acknowledgments 120 Index 123
内容简介
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. Salinger's classic coming-of-age story portrays one young man's funny and poignant experiences with life, love, and sex.
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