★  戴逸群英文騎士團長《用繪本、橋梁書和小說打造孩子英語閱讀素養》推薦書單


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.


美國20世紀的重要小說家之一--J.D. Salinger 2010年1月27日逝世，其重要代表作--《麥田捕手》

以主角中學生Holden的判逆個性來反應對世界的不滿，他因為被學校開除，怕父母知道後會生氣，所以離家出走，當紐約住上了幾天，此書主要描寫他在城裡的歷程；他雖然表面憤世嫉俗、反現實，但內心卻是善良的，寫出了青少年對成人世界的不滿、消極的反抗，此書是值得做為青少年心理的探討