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每個青少年都曾有過的憤怒與迷惘
就和荷頓一起大吼吧!J. D. Salinger 沙林傑的經典代表作
【為你的青春放一把火:麥田捕手】
他說「去他的這世界!」,荷頓 ‧ 考菲爾德決定逃離這所該死的住宿高中,他受夠學校無趣又空虛的生活,他也討厭噁心又假惺惺的大人世界,於是他帶著身上僅有的存款,決定在城市裡來一趟奇妙的旅行,他徘徊在寒冷無人的公園、眾生喧嘩的酒吧、和住客品質低落的破爛旅館,一邊慢慢回想過去的回憶,並思索自己下一步該怎麼走...
若要說美國文學作品裡具代表性的文學人物,那《麥田捕手》裡的荷頓‧考菲爾德絕對是其中的經典。他的盛怒與對大人世代的不屑和輕蔑,他的桀傲個性和細膩心思,他對家人的情感和對自己處境的消極反抗,透過沙林傑的文字一代代傳承在人們的記憶裡。
沙林傑可說是美國近代傳奇性的小說家,他在世時完全不把自己的作品授權給好萊塢拍攝電影或任何形式的演出,自從《麥田捕手》的空前成功後,他多半時間隱居在鄉下山上的房子裡,不喜歡與外界打交道。他打過二戰,參加過諾曼第登陸等戰役,但戰爭在他心中因此種下一生的恐怖陰影,之後創作的多篇小說裡也藉由故事人物,透露著戰爭創傷症候群所帶來的深遠影響。
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.
"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."
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. 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.
ISBN : 9780316769488
作者介紹
J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.