The Catcher in the Rye ( "The Catcher in the Rye" ), is one of the most celebrated novels of training world, perhaps the most famous one, written in 1951 by Jerome David Salinger, better known as JD Salinger (1919-2010), author shy, unapproachable, infotografabile, inintervistabile (a couple of interviews in fifty years and only one official photos).
Beyond the character of the author, who retired from public life and career in 1965, "Holden" text is read and reread by those who love writing (and who wants to be a writer). The plot sees the center of the seventeen year old Holden Caulfield, student-model, four schools and changed a little brother who died of leukemia. The boy runs away from Pencey college in Pennsylvania and runs to New York City.
And here starts the adventure.
Alberghetti disreputable, girls, prostitutes, professors, disturbances, drunkenness, emotions, melancholy ... and New York. So yes, a lot of exciting and New York. Edmont Hotel, the Zoo, the Central Park lake with its ducks in winter, the clock of the Biltmore Hotel, museums around Central Park.
and lesser known places, like the neighborhood where he lives Professor Antolini: "They were very chic in that apartment on Sutton Place, with a living room that you go down two steps and the bar and everything."
The Salinger of New York is real and unreal at the same time, a place no-place wanted the main character, reached with the body but the soul still wandering: "I went back to the hotel on foot. Forty beautiful island . It's not that I want to walk. It is rather that I had no desire to restart all the ups and downs by taxi.
This New York has so impressed on the imagination and the criticism that The New York Times has drawn up a special map for the benefit of every tourist literature .
The city symbol of the city is an integral part of the novel and it also binds to non-narrative events (December 8, 1980, a copy of the novel was in the pocket of Mike Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon in his home in New York).
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger, Einaudi, 2008 
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