For Holden 'is its name' has just been fired for the umpteenth time his high school and far from dismantling it is ready to leave the school structure and to engage in the great world. Pencey Farewell, old hillbillies to miserable college profs, hello New York and its illuminations. Both say Holden has room in his learning the harsh reality of things: the need to study the need to adapt to its place, everything has not integrated it. At 16, it seems normal to want to lead his long way. We fear among parents, teachers and sententious moralizing, it is better to find more empathetic companions. In this book, therefore, we see the three days of running away from our hero strolling in New York too big for him, whose codes are not necessarily addition fair. We feel a bit lost a Holden, which bar to bar looking file 'what first? An elsewhere? A refuge? It is not beyond the book with answers, just one wonders about the motivations of this teenager in search of freedom. He made us laugh to end his sentences with "and everything" to be afraid of girls and especially when it becomes serious. Because even he knows: he is torn between childhood where he was pampered and full of dreams and the adult life where he does dip a foot for fear of getting lost. Then he reminds knowledge, attempts to link the "friendships", dark bar hoping the boss to authorize the use of alcohol (neither seen nor known, it takes on airs to try to fool the "old" ). But the homecoming is inescapable: the more he dedicates a great love for his little sister Phoebe which for him is a benchmark for strength of character and life instinct. It is hard to imagine that he could continue his wanderings while his family is still everything to him.
Between the fear of rejection when her parents learn his dismissal and his immense desire to remain a model for sis, again Holden to decide.
Either it is a book that entertained and amused me for a while but then to understand the excitement in the 50s, I admit not having understood the tricks that would have made this book a great work . I agree that Salinger has style, panache and banter via a cheeky and rebellious narrator but this wandering narrative not challenged me more than that. This is at best a beach reading, at most a lovely time back to a very remote adolescence 'yes, there was a time where I had to know that any child insurance -. I had heard the news of Salinger worth visiting. Having bought more Franny and Zooey, I think that in a few I could say that I would read everything Salinger. Although I am far failed to describe this reading, I admit I had a hint of disappointment by turning the last page to say "ah, it was just that! ".
Maybe I should have put myself forward as there has some books whose reading, looking back and the weight of years, loses its charm.
