Walking in Holden Caulfield's footsteps through Manhattan

Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 19:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Nearly 60 years after the publication of 'The Catcher in the Rye' you can still see much of the New York that he saw. Holden Caulfield was a flâneur . That's not generally how we think of him, this archetype of adolescent alienation, this detester of phonies, this poor little lost boy whose voice — by turns knowing, childlike, cynical and bereft — drives J.D. Salinger's iconic 1951 novel, "The Catcher in the Rye." Yet, from the moment, about a quarter of the way through the...

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