Der Fänger im Roggen

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Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783462032185 Another edition can be found here

Der 16-jährige Holden Caulfield wird aus Pencey, einem Internat in Pennsylvania, verwiesen, weil er in vier von fünf Fächern durchgefallen ist. Eigentlich soll er bis zu Beginn der Ferien in der Schule bleiben, doch er packt kurzentschlossen seine Sachen und macht sich auf den Weg in seine Heimatstadt New York. Da seine Eltern noch nichts von seinem Rauswurf wissen und ihn erst drei Tage später erwarten, irrt Holden ziellos durch die winterliche Stadt und steigt in einem Hotel ab. Verschiedene Annäherungsversuche an Frauen schlagen fehl. Der Hotelpage vermittelt Holden eine Prostituierte, von deren Zuhälter er verprügelt wird. Am nächsten Morgen verlässt Holden das Hotel, schließt seinen Koffer im Bahnhof ein und verabredet sich mit Sally Hayes, einer ehemaligen Schulfreundin. Sie gehen gemeinsam ins Theater und zum Schlittschuhlaufen. Als Holden ihr vorschlägt, mit ihm auszureißen, zerstreiten sie sich.
Nach einer weiteren desillusionierenden Begegnung mit einem ehemaligen Schulkameraden schleicht Holden sich nachts nach Hause zu seiner neunjährigen Schwester Phoebe. Anschließend geht er zu einem ehemaligen Lehrer, um bei ihm zu übernachten; da er dessen sexuelle Annäherung fürchtet, schläft er schließlich auf dem Bahnhof. Am nächsten Tag trifft er sich mit Phoebe, um ihr zu sagen, dass er nach Westen fliehen will. Weil Phoebe ihn begleiten möchte, verspricht er jedoch nach Hause zu kommen und macht mit ihr einen Ausflug in den Zoo.

270 pages, Hardcover

First published July 16,1951

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Format
270 pages, Hardcover
Published
February 20, 2003 by Kiepenheuer \u0026 Witsch
ISBN
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Language
German
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  • Holden Caulfield

    Holden Caulfield

    The 16-year-old protagonist of author J. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye. Holden is naive and at the same time resentful of the adult world. One of his most striking qualities is his powerful revulsion for all things "phony". At six feet, two-an...

  • Robert Ackley

    Robert Ackley

    Holdens next-door neighbor at Pencey Prepmore...

  • Stradlater

    Stradlater

    Holdens roommate at Pencey Prepmore...

  • Phoebe Caulfield

    Phoebe Caulfield

    Holdens 10 year old sister who he loves a lot because she listens and understands him more than others. more...

  • Allie Caulfield

    Allie Caulfield

    Holdens younger brother who died three years before the novel from leukemia.more...

  • D.B Caulfield

    D.b Caulfield

    Holdens older brother who wrote a volume of short storiesmore...

About the author

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Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.

People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield especially influenced adolescent readers. Widely read and controversial, sells a quarter-million copies a year.

The success led to public attention and scrutiny: reclusive, he published new work less frequently. He followed with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.

Afterward, Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton. In the late 1990s, Joyce Maynard, a close ex-lover, and Margaret Salinger, his daughter, wrote and released his memoirs. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book form, but the ensuing publicity indefinitely delayed the release.

Another writer used one of his characters, resulting in copyright infringement; he filed a lawsuit against this writer and afterward made headlines around the globe in June 2009. Salinger died of natural causes at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.

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