The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. His fourth novel, Freedom, was published in the fall of 2010.Franzen's other honors include a 1988 Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996), the Salon Book Award (2001), the New York Times Best Books of the Year (2001), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2002).

出版者:Fourth Estate Paperbacks

作者:Jonathan Franzen

页数:576

出版时间:2002-9-1

价格:USD 17.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780312421274

图书标签:JonathanFranzen小说美国文学美国英文原版Jonathan_Franzen文学社会

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

An American Library Association Notable Book

Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.

Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says.

Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D------ College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a "transgressive" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man--or so Gary hints.

Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.

读后感

乔纳森曾经登上美国时代周刊的封面，给人的印象是一个胡子拉碴，不善言辞的呆板文艺人。的确，在这个fast food的年代，花十年的功夫写一本书的作家（其实大部分人也只能称之为作者）寥寥无几，尤其是写比较艰难的社会写实题材。想想吧，描述一个患有帕金森的父亲和一个患有忧郁...

【读品】罗豫/文 崇尚标新立异的年代，没有底气的作家恐怕还不敢老老实实写小说。美国作家乔纳森·弗兰岑的《纠正》一书，如果不是这个奖那个奖拿了一大堆，商业宣传上会相当缺乏“卖点”：主角是一个再平常不过的美国家庭，随便扔块石头到大洋彼岸就能砸到这么一家子。“人生...  

四十二岁出版一部虚构的家族编年史，对于一位年轻的小说家来说是极富有勇气的事。弗兰岑的小说简洁而精确，对家庭关系与社会关系的透视尤为出色，这并非来源于学术训练与阅读能够带给人的老练，而更多来源于生活予人切身的感触。 大段的描写削弱了主题与篇章、人物与家庭之间...  

全书613页总共出现过“纠正”这个词七次（如果我没漏掉几个的话）。总体分析看来，这些“纠正”都是有意设置的。 【1】P51，第二行。“过了五星期，纠正了共计一万或五千个错误之后，在万圣节那个刮风的夜晚，他依然在批改论文。” 这里写的是奇普还是教授的时候，孜孜不倦地...  

全书613页总共出现过“纠正”这个词七次（如果我没漏掉几个的话）。总体分析看来，这些“纠正”都是有意设置的。 【1】P51，第二行。“过了五星期，纠正了共计一万或五千个错误之后，在万圣节那个刮风的夜晚，他依然在批改论文。” 这里写的是奇普还是教授的时候，孜孜不倦地...  

用户评价

The first chapter is well-written, the Chip story interesting and amusingly relatable, but then it's just so boring...

不分昼夜地读……作者真的太博学太逗乐了。。与Chip产生共鸣最多；至于家庭关系之类的，没有搞得太清楚……中部的人真那么weird嘛，什么时候体验一下～

整整三个月，名不虚传，真的是一本很难的书。

读到爹娘那章实在读不下去了，还书的时候对某人说"It's too depressing"，某人说当然了这可是他的书

从美国中西部到东部，从西方到东方，政治，经济，美食，哲学，戏剧。跨度很大，但归根到底还是年迈父母和三个儿女之间的故事。而为什么我们总是急于插手修正他人的生活？