April 26, Monday, at 18.30, in the library number 8 will be a new meeting of the literary studio "Eight". This time, the moderator, poet and journalist Sergei Gogin, proposes to discuss the cult book The Catcher in the Rye. You can also join online.

FROM THE MODERATOR

This first and most famous novel by Salinger has become not only a cult, but also a textbook - it is in the compulsory literature curriculum in American schools. Let's think why. And also why different freaks love him.

Actor Danila Kozlovsky about the main character:

“The first feeling that I had was envy for this boy. He does not resist his nature, tries to accept himself as he is, does not hesitate to live. Living through some stage, he does not run away from this stage, he does not say to himself: “No, I’m good, I just did not do a very good deed, but I’ll justify it now, I’ve committed meanness, but now I’ll atone for it, I’ll say that I’m a scoundrel, that I’m guilty.” He is sincere from beginning to end. Yes, sometimes he does bad things. But from whose point of view? Society, morality, principles? Who composed these principles and this morality? The Lord God? And why is it bad? Perhaps, on the contrary, one should be ashamed of being good, because sometimes for what something has to be bad.

Holden is an incredibly bright character, but not only light comes from him, but also a very great inner freedom. For me, this is the freedom of a person who gets what he wants, not as a result of imposed models that he tries to follow: he did everything according to the rules - and hop, here is the result. This is the freedom of a person, as it were, saying: “Yes, now I live like this, with all my pains, breakdowns, violations and mistakes. Let me walk this path in this way.”
(https://arzamas.academy/mag/907-kozlovsky)

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