The school holidays in the United States are different from those in China.

Their winter break generally starts two weeks before Christmas and ends in early January, ranging from three to five weeks, and varies from school to school, but is much the same.

The new year passed, a new semester began, and students returned to campus.

It seems that this is a campus life that is no different from the past, but many students still noticed anomalies.

They saw that some students were wearing windbreakers and hats, and no one paid any attention to them, and they didn't care about it, and they just entered the classroom like that, and they didn't pay attention to the class, and they looked like bad students.

This condition is more common in middle schools in New York, but it can also be found in other areas.

Even in universities, there is a similar situation, but no one counts it, and no one pays attention to this kind of parody show.

Soon, the other students learned that they were imitating the main character of a novel, who was also a middle school student, but very characterful, very unusual.

So, the students went to find a novel called "The Catcher in the Rye" and became obsessed with it.

It's all a novel written to them.

Like them, Holden, the protagonist of the novel, encounters various problems in school, is ostracized by classmates, criticized by teachers, and is at a loss in the face of the adult world.

This group of teenagers fantasizes about growing up, but they are afraid of growing up.

They want to leave school and go out into society like Holden, and as Holden goes through this adolescent adventure, Holden's two days and two nights in New York make them feel the same way.

Eventually, Holden returned home. ended this short life away from home.

The students who read the book also ended their adventure, but they had an idol in their hearts. That's Holden, and they're going to live like Holden. Just to make yourself different.

This may be the rebellion of adolescence.

Teachers are finding that more and more students are wearing trench coats and hats in the classroom, which has become a trend.

The students also dared to contradict the teacher, and there were still swear words in their mouths, which was not at all like their usual appearance.

This anomaly caught the attention of the school, who discovered that the culprit was a novel, and that it was not their school, but that there were many schools where it occurred.

Students are imitating. That said, the novel resonated with the students.

Curious, the school teacher looked for the novel, and the teacher understood better than the students that the novel was written about the confusion and restlessness, anger and anxiety of teenagers.

It writes the hearts of teenagers.

The feeling of the publishing house is even weirder, the novels that were not favored in the first place did not sell well when they were first published, and they only looked like 10,000 copies, not to mention bestsellers. Not even regular books are sold.

But two months later, this novel became inexplicably popular, and booksellers from all over the world came to urge the goods.

The publisher had to reprint it, and 50,000 copies were sent out. I still can't meet the demand, no way, continue to print.

They learned from various sources. The Catcher in the Rye is mostly read by teenagers, but also college students. It has become a trend in secondary schools.

These students saw the novel during the winter break, and then it was imitated and disseminated. Book sales went up all at once.

Based on the number of teenagers in the United States, the novel could sell more than one million.

Naturally, the publishers were overjoyed by this unexpected situation, and it was all dollars, and they stepped up their publicity in the newspapers, focusing on school students, saying that it was a novel that teenagers should not miss.

Regardless of the publication's propaganda, some journalists and literary critics have noticed this anomaly.

Originally, "The Catcher in the Rye" was marketed as a gimmick of the author's new work "Gone with the Wind", and it has to be said that this marketing method was counterproductive.

Many readers think that "The Catcher in the Rye" is a popular novel with the same historical theme as "Gone with the Wind".

Readers who are not interested in this kind of subject matter will naturally not buy it, and those who are interested will buy it and find that it is a novel written about teenagers, and think that they have been deceived, so they throw away the novel.

Therefore, the two sides did not please, and there was no good reputation, and even literary critics did not pay attention.

Now that good word of mouth has spread from the school, sales of the novel have skyrocketed, "The Catcher in the Rye" has become a phenomenal novel, and various literary reviews have been released.

Some critics believe that the novel teaches students badly, that the protagonist is full of swearing, that life has no purpose, and that teenagers should not be exposed to this kind of decadent literature.

Some critics feel that this novel shows profound social problems and uses a stream-of-consciousness technique to write about the inner world of teenagers, which deserves the attention of sociologists and psychologists.

What surprised them the most was that the novel was written by a Chinese.

Lin Zixuan is well-known in the American literary world, and his "Gone with the Wind" can be said to be a masterpiece of popular literature, and if he were an American, he might have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The award was established in 1917 at the behest of American newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer.

The Pulitzer Prize is divided into two categories, journalism and creation, the winner of the journalism category can be of any nationality, but the winning entry must be published in a U.S. weekly or daily newspaper, and the winner of the creative category must be a U.S. citizen.

Even though "The Catcher in the Rye" is controversial in the American literary world, they must admit that it is a profound novel with research and criticism value.

It's just that they can't let go of a Chinese writing a novel that reflects the reality of American society.

At this time, they noticed that the translation of the novel was by an American female writer, which relieved American literary critics, who had an impression of Pearl Race living in China.

This shows that this novel was co-created by Lin Zixuan and Pearl Sai.

For this reason, the American literary world accepted "The Catcher in the Rye", and they could praise the novel with confidence.

The popularity of "The Catcher in the Rye", especially among American teenagers, attracted the attention of Time magazine in the United States.

The magazine, founded in 1923, was preparing to choose a Chinese for its cover.

The magazine's first choice is politicians, that is, people they believe are most likely to unify China in the future.

According to the information obtained by the magazine from China, they were going to send reporters to interview Wu Peifu, the de facto ruler of the Beiyang warlords.

But after seeing Lin Zixuan's news, Time Magazine made a temporary decision to let reporters go to Shanghai to interview Lin Zixuan, and regarded Lin Zixuan as a leading figure in China's cultural and ideological circles.

Moreover, Lin Zixuan is a very influential Chinese in the American literary world, and I believe that American readers prefer Lin Zixuan, which can increase the sales of the magazine.

Of course, they didn't give up on Wu Peifu.

Leaders of political circles and leaders of cultural circles have introduced this as a comprehensive China. (To be continued.) )