"The Catcher in the Rye" is a modern novel whose centre point aren't the events but the character. The inner world (emotions, thoughts, conscious and subconscious) of the character are the centre of the novel. The character isn't a hero, he's actually an introvert who is just observing the world around himself and has no […]
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome David Salinger was an American novelist, storyteller and writer who gained fame with his only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, which took him ten years to write. The novel became popular among American students and cemented Salinger's place in literature. Prior to his writing career, Salinger served as a hero in World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy. He withdrew from the literary world in 1965.
