Holden Caulfield (Maj Lit Chr) (Oop) (Bloom's Major Literary Characters) [Library Binding]

Harold Bloom (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Series: Bloom's Major Literary Characters | Publication Date: December 1991

There is little disagreement among critics that Huck Finn sought freedom. The debate seems to be whether or not he sought freedom for or from some things--society, family, respectability, daily reality, growing up, and dying. This text gathers together some of the best critical work regarding Mark Twain's unforgettable character Huckleberry Finn.

Huck Finn is part of the Major Literary Characters series, edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. This series is the only major collection of criticism on widely studied fictional figures from world literature, bringing together a diverse array of the finest critical writing from around the world. Each volume includes Harold Bloom's essay "The Analysis of Character" and introductory essays on title characters.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Library Binding: 182 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079100953X
• ISBN-13: 978-0791009536
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,449,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars comments on other reviews, April 6, 2000

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This review is from: Holden Caulfield (Maj Lit Chr) (Oop) (Bloom's Major Literary Characters) (Library Binding)

I'm the type who could go on for hours about Holden and Pheobe and Ally's mitt and the girl who plays checkers and keeps the kings in the back. Everybody will obviously find their own meanings and understandings to these side reveries Holden takes us through. I just couldn't pass the opportunity to comment on the reviewers who said that Holden rambled and bored them in some ways. I wonder if these were the kids who had to read the book as assigned reading in a class they took in high school or college. I reccommend they go back.. cause I always go back to The Catcher and discover a new dawning of what Holden is trying to communicate to me. Try reading it again, it's not that big of a book you know. And maybe this time you'll see it's not really boring useless ramblings. It's a great deal more. That's the greatest part of this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rambling .. So?, May 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Holden Caulfield (Maj Lit Chr) (Oop) (Bloom's Major Literary Characters) (Library Binding)

To the person who said Holden "talked too much" duder .. that was the point! I'm a female in love with that book and it's like, sometimes all you do is sit some where and ramble on and on about nothing of any importance. I think THAT was what made Holden so real. He over-analyzed quite a bit, which I think a lot of self concious teens do. I don't think this book so much describes all adolescents, just like Siddhartha doesn't speak the view of every Middle Easterner. You can't write a book and say "This here story is one that every (-fill-in-space-) can identify with." I personally DO agree with a lot of things he has to say but some of my friends think he is full of s***. Anyway ... thats my review :P

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i see my self in place of holden he is so real ., August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Holden Caulfield (Maj Lit Chr) (Oop) (Bloom's Major Literary Characters) (Library Binding)

This is one book which is close to reality, a book which relates to you ,as if i would have written this book if i ever had the guts to run away , to stay alone depressed and all . its hard to forget what your past was all the kids you meet may be good may be bad may be some you hated but its like you remember certain moments of certain days not that somthing special happened that day may be nothing happened but still you can picture it . Holden's character is one to which all the youths can identify with . I did not get the meaning of the title till Holden tells Phobey about what he wants to be , "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE".I probably want to be ,i don't know what but somebody different somebody good , a person who has certain amount of "HUMAN TOUCH". It is just that i seem to lose my way like holden. Holden was a dreamer , a child depressed by the circumstances . Its the best book i ever read or probably will ever read , definately no.1 book of all times.