The Catcher in the Rye (『호밀밭의 파수꾼』원서)

물질적 가치만 내세우는 세상의 비인간성에 염증을 느끼며 반발하는 주인공 홀든. 순진함과 예리한 통찰력으로 인생의 충격과 유혹에 맞서 가출을 결심하지만 뜻밖의 현실에 부딪치는데. 사춘기 청소년이 사회와 가정에 대해 느끼고 있는 심리를 잘 표현한 작품.

The highly successful Catcher is J. D. Salinger's only published novel. It is narrated by seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, a schoolboy in rebellion against the dubious values of the adult world.

In 1949, recovering in a California sanitorium, Holden relates events that occurred during three December days in 1948--when he was sixteen. Within this part of the story, Holden frequently flashes back to experiences and people from earlier in his life.

Much like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Catcher could be described as an American Bildungsroman: a picaresque novel that illustrates the moral development and attitudes of its nonconformist protagonist