Monday, April 04, 2005
The Catcher in the Rye
Still sorting out the books and clothings out of boxes from moving a month ago.
Picked out infmous 'The Catcher in the Rye' and had to hesitate a bit before placing it next to Toni Morison's "Beloved."
Where does this book belong?
This is one of more discussed, more banned, and seemingly more controversal than most books.
It's rather thin, and isn't all that shocking in nowadays' standard, 21st'. The background, I belive, is back in '60s.
I went through a serious disliking of this book, to becoming quiet fond and creating rather surprising mutual understanding/identification w/ the character in the book. And, after end-to-end binge, it's a bit bland now. Perhaps I've become an uninteresting person. Perhaps I've grown up.
I do have quiet a bit of criticisms, both pro and cons, I've collected over the years.
Seems like many American literary critics in '60s and '70s wrote in favour of this revolutionary piece of work, and others, especially the Russian critics placed this book to be of typical of spoiled American brat attitude.
And, the fact that the author couldn't handle the fame and is in hiding for over 30 years so far.
If he's living in hiding, where did he get such an idea and courage to write this work and publish it in the first place, I wonder.
Picked out infmous 'The Catcher in the Rye' and had to hesitate a bit before placing it next to Toni Morison's "Beloved."
Where does this book belong?
This is one of more discussed, more banned, and seemingly more controversal than most books.
It's rather thin, and isn't all that shocking in nowadays' standard, 21st'. The background, I belive, is back in '60s.
I went through a serious disliking of this book, to becoming quiet fond and creating rather surprising mutual understanding/identification w/ the character in the book. And, after end-to-end binge, it's a bit bland now. Perhaps I've become an uninteresting person. Perhaps I've grown up.
I do have quiet a bit of criticisms, both pro and cons, I've collected over the years.
Seems like many American literary critics in '60s and '70s wrote in favour of this revolutionary piece of work, and others, especially the Russian critics placed this book to be of typical of spoiled American brat attitude.
And, the fact that the author couldn't handle the fame and is in hiding for over 30 years so far.
If he's living in hiding, where did he get such an idea and courage to write this work and publish it in the first place, I wonder.
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