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I’m Katie Couric. Also tonight, he was required reading for generations of American teenagers. J.D. Salinger, author of The catcher in The Rye has died. From CBS News world headquarters in New York. It’s one of the best-selling novels of all time. The Catcher in The Rye estimated sale, 60 million and counting계속 증가중인. Today, Jeff Greenfield tells us word came that the reclusive은둔하는 author of this tale of teenage rebellion반항 J.D. Salinger has died at 91.
From its very opening, the book’s plain-spoken, sometimes profane불경한 words hit mid-century America like a bolt of lightning번개. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I born and what my lousy엉망인 childhood was like. J.D. Salinger’s The catcher in The Rye was a literary sensation from its first appearance in 1951. Its central figure, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield, is one of the most recognizable figures in 20th century American fiction.
The story isn’t much. Holden Caulfield expelled쫒겨나다 from a fancy prep school사립고등학교 spends a long weekend in New York wandering through Central Park, visiting other haunts자주 가는 곳, but it’s not what he does. It’s what he thinks and how he expresses those thoughts that has made catcher in the rye so compelling주목하지 않을 수 없는 for so many, for so long. In his feelings of isolation and awkwardness어색함, Holden Caulfield was an early version of the post war disaffected반감을 품은 young. James Dean in Rebel without a Cause. Dustin Hoffman, a decade later in the Graduate. “Mrs. Robinson? You’re trying to seduce유혹하다 me.”
The character was embraced by받아들이다 millions from artists, writers to the deeply troubled Mark David Chapman who said he killed John Lennon in 1980 to promote the book. The rough language in Holden’s brooding생각에 잠긴 thoughts also made the catcher in the rye very controversial. At one point in the 1980s, it was the most censored검열 받다 and second most assigned book in American public high school.
After catcher, Salinger published a series of short stories in the New Yorker. But nothing since 1965.
He lived the last half century in Cornish, New Hampshire shunning피하다 all interviews. For years, rumors have flourished무성하다about stories and books Salinger wrote, but never published. So it just maybe that with his death, Salinger’s unique voice will once again be heard. Jeff Greenfield, CBS News, New York. And that is the CBS Evening News. I’m Katie Couric. Thanks for watching. Good night.