有一位名叫杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格的美国人,十余年发表了二十多个短篇小说后,一九五一年出版了一部不长的长篇小说——《麦田里的守望者》。小说引起极大轰动,初版后的半个月内就连续再版五次,此后三十年中销量在一千万册以上。许多学校把它列为课外读物,甚至当作教材,美国著名社会学家大卫·里斯曼在哈佛大学开设的社会学课程《美国的 One American, named Jerome David Salinger, published more than 20 short stories in more than 10 years and published a not-so-long novel in 1951 - “Rye The watchman. ” The novel caused a great sensation, after the first edition within two weeks after five consecutive reprint, after thirty years of sales in more than 10 million copies. Many schools have classified it as an extracurricular book, or even as a textbook. The famous American sociologist David Risman offered a sociology course at Harvard University