mantis--
Well, when I started to read Pandora_by_Holly_Hollander
and found myself reading a monologue by an observant
but a bit alienated teenager, Catcher instantly sprang
to mind.
Gene Wolfe puts really obscure references in his works
(e.g. the torture machine in Shadow which writes on
the clients' bodies is from Kafka's The_Penal_Colony).
I can't believe he wouldn't make the Catcher connection.
Other than that, I don't believe there are that many
parallels; Holden Caulfield doesn't solve a murder, and
Holly doesn't go to NYC. But that wonderful voice of
innocence which thinks it's cynical--that was the same.
Maybe I need to re-read Catcher; but I remember not
liking it, and I've other things to read.
-John