Most Popular Books by J. D. Salinger

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.

The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger''s fictional Glass family. Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger''s very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come. The stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut Just Before the War with the Eskimos The Laughing Man Down at the Dinghy For Esmé--with Love and Squalor Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes De Daumier-Smith''s Blue Period Teddy

"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger''s Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker. "Everything everybody does is so--I don''t know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you''re conforming just as much only in a different way." A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America''s most beloved writers.

MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work''s historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses—sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly—what that onslaught was like, the autobiographical origins of his art, and his advice to writers. Including his final, surprising interview, and with an insightful introduction by New York Times journalist David Streitfeld, these enlightening, provocative, and even amusing conversations reveal a writer fiercely resistant to the spotlight but powerless to escape its glare.

"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger''s most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeant''s meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in "The New Yorker" in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers'' fan-letters. ''A Perfect Day for Bananafish'' is the first of the author''s stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who would appear in much of Salinger''s later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldest sibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida.

"For Esmé With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger''s most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeant''s meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in "The New Yorker" in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers'' fan-letters. ''A Perfect Day for Bananafish'' is the first of the author''s stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who would appear in much of Salinger''s later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldest sibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida.

Two long short stories first published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, ''Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters'' and ''Seymour, An Introduction'' are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of the author himself.

The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times). These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass--the eldest son of J. D. Salinger''s fictional Glass family--as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy. "He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet..."

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Franny se enfrenta al problema de los farsantes y la falsedad. El hecho mismo de que sea actriz profesional la obliga a plantearse la distinción entre autenticidad y falsedad y a vérselas con la vanidad y el egotismo casi a diario, e incluso su intento de renuncia a su profesión está abocado al fracaso si pretende mantenerse fiel a sí misma.

Um retrato lírico, ocasionalmente cômico e sempre cortante da vida em família e do fim da infância. Salinger continua a explorar os meandros da família Glass,que os leitores conheceram em Nove histórias. Em "Franny", a mais jovem dos Glass se encontra com o namorado, mas o que prometia ser um fim de semana aprazível acaba se tornando uma descida ao mal-estar espiritual que a domina. Em "Zooey", encontramos Franny em meio a um colapso nervoso, e cabe a seu irmão tentar ajudá-la.

Amb la conversa com a vehicle conductor, aquesta obra aprofundeix en les inquietuds de la petita Franny, membre de la omnipresent família Glass. Serà en Zooey, el seu germà, el que tracti d''ajudar-la a eludir la crisi existencial en la qual es veu sotmesa. Pel camí, amb Dostoievki a l''horitzó, el lector trobarà les més subtils reflexions sobre l''art i la religió.

Em um dos mais importantes livros do século XX, J. D. Salinger esmiúça a vida americana no pós-guerra com humor e delicadeza. Da cultuada "Um dia perfeito para peixes-banana", em que o leitor tem seu primeiro — e impactante — contato com a família Glass, à emocionante "Para Esmé — com amor e sordidez", as histórias aqui reunidas dão a justa medida do talento inesgotável de J. D. Salinger. Poucos escritores souberam capturar com tanta maestria uma época, seus temas e anseios. Neste que é um dos mais célebres e festejados livros da língua inglesa, Salinger deu a seus leitores nove obras-primas da narrativa curta. Ao longo das nove ficções, os Estados Unidos do pós-guerra aparecem com inédito frescor literário conforme acompanhamos os efeitos, às vezes sutis, do conflito na vida de indivíduos e famílias. Mais que isso, Nove histórias traz à tona alguns dos mais marcantes personagens da prosa do século XX, como o misterioso Seymour e a adorável Esmé, bem como pistas importantes para o quebra-cabeça da família Glass, que Salinger continuaria trabalhando em seus próximos livros.

Os leitores de J. D. Salinger estão familiarizados com os Glass. Figurando em algumas das histórias mais conhecidas do escritor, como " Um dia perfeito para peixes-banana" e Franny & Zooey, eles são uma família de prodígios juvenis agora às voltas com os dilemas e dissabores da vida adulta. Nessas duas histórias, narradas por Buddy Glass, finalmente vamos conhecer mais sobre a vida de Seymour, o grande mistério que paira sobre toda a família.

Las peripecias del adolescente Holden Cauldfiel en una Nueva York que se recupera de la guerra influyeron en sucesivas generaciones de todo el mundo. En su confesión sincera y sin tapujos, muy lejos de la visión almibarada de la adolescencia que imperó hasta entonces, Holden nos desvela la realidad de un muchacho enfrentado al fracaso escolar, a las rígidas normas de una familia tradicional, a la experiencia de la sexualidad más allá del mero deseo.

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Holden Caulfield, coñecendo que vai ser expulsado da escola, decide deixala antes. Pasa tres días na cidade de Nova York e conta a historia do que fixo e sufriu. Narrada moi subxectivamente (o protagonista fai valoracións de todo canto relata), utilizando unha linguaxe propia da mocidade e facendo unhas análises da realidade mediatizadas pola peculiar personalidade do protagonista, a través do relato asistimos á fuxida cara adiante de Holden quen expulsado do seu elitista colexio, decide marcharse de alí e deambula polas rúas de Nova York queimando un tras outro os seus recursos de subsistencia. Personalidade nerviosa e sensible, Holden, na transición da adolescencia á madurez, enfróntase no decurso dunhas poucas horas cos grandes temas que preocupan a tódolos mozos: o seu lugar na sociedade, os valores que se afianzan e se desbotan, a actitude fronte á morte, o amor e outros sentimentos que suscita, a amizade, a iniciación ó sexo..., contado todo con humor e unha extraordinaria intensidade narrativa, nun maxistral relato en primeira persoa. Holden Caulfield é, dende 1951, ano da publicación de O vixía no centeo, o sinónimo de adolescente inconformista, o símbolo da autoafirmación do individuo fronte a un medio hostil. Neses tres días, nos que cronoloxicamente se desenvolve a novela, Holden enfróntase ás súas propias contradiccións e ó imperioso desexo de fuxida. Fuxir do mundo que lle agarda ó medrar, como se nese fuxir a única saída fose inmobilizar o tempo. O vixía no centeo (The catcher in the rye) está considerada como un dos clásicos da literatura norteamericana contemporánea. Centos de miles de estudiantes de todo o mundo descobren cada ano o pracer da literatura da man do escritor norteamericano J. D. Salinger.

Nou contes de J.D. Salinger, número 21 de la col·lecció de Narrativa, es va publicar per primera vegada amb traducció de Quim Monzó i amb el títol Just abans de la guerra amb els esquimals. Quan J.D. Salinger va veure els exemplars amb el títol canviat (l''original es deia Nine stories), es va posar fet una fúria, i va exigir la retirada immediata de tots els exemplars. La ràpida reacció d''Empúries va reconduir la situació i recomposar les relacions, i des d''aleshores Salinger s''ha consolidat com un dels autors més emblemàtics del nostre catàleg.

Els dos llargs dies que Holden Cauldfield, el jove protagonista, passa a Nova York són la seva fugida personal. Fuig del món dels adults, un món que rebutja, intentant protegir la seva infantesa, un territori pur que ja no és el seu. Holden Cauldfield sap que s’està fent gran i que no pot deturar aquest procés natural; es rebel·la i, volent actuar contra l’inevitable pas del temps, el noi opta per un camí incert i de difícil tornada...Amb El vigilant en el camp de sègol, J. D. Salinger va escriure la que ha estat considerada la gran novel.la americana. Certament, aquest és un títol ja clàssic de la literatura nord-americana i, de fet, de la literatura occidental contemporània.

Sacrilege is a deliberate offense on the status quo. Basic assumptions are challenged in an expressionist manner usually found in the arts. Very strong use of words to convey a point that is often not understood without the use of such techniques. It is meant to offend and be taken seriously, or not, depending on the reader. At its foundation, it is a challenge on basic foundations of social constructs, a programming designed for another era in time. Humans are programmable computers in need of an update from the old system, once necessary, but now obsolete.