Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), a collection of essays (How to Be Alone), a personal history (The Discomfort Zone), and a translation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, all published by FSG. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew.”
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn’t omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China’s economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: 美國 喬納森·弗蘭岑 隨筆 文學 寫給好基友的文 美國文學 社會評論 文化
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評分我覺得是真誠的。
評分晚上一口氣看完瞭,主要是為瞭thesis paper做準備。讀來挺有意思的,齣瞭濃濃基情之外,有些心理狀態的小細節的描繪很吸引人。再來,一些生僻詞語看著特打擊,讀著特拗口。驚喜的是,比如書中提到的那種鳥,查瞭圖片,竟然是種很小隻的生物。
評分Franzen articulates what I've always wanted to say but could never articulate myself.
評分作品集。從科技與現代生活、從Masafuera小島獨處攀登到灑下好友骨灰、從無感高爾夫但愛好觀鳥到中國和目睹的種種現況……以及之後一篇篇的書評,許多地方寫得讓人忍不住稱妙呼然。
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