Is 'Catcher in the Rye' still relevant on Salinger's 100th birthday?
I read it again about a decade ago and found it as I had found it the first time I read it in college. It is a minor work designed for a small audience; an audience that doesn't include me, apparently, as I still cannot recognize its particular "genius". The protagonist is a prosaic teenager and his self-revelation is mundane and facile. It's not exactly a breakthrough in characterization or narrative voice.