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).
发表于2024-11-21
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摘自《周末画报》 作者:钟 蓓 弗兰岑偏偏就和些“海獭式作家”站在一个队伍,写那种大视野、全景式的家族小说。他热爱包罗万象的生活题材,描写当下 人们的生活方式。他的人物既不是珠宝大盗,也不是人类天才,他们不过是平凡得不能再平凡的芸芸众生——无法解决自我的困...
评分2014-11-05 发表于“腾讯·大家”专栏 终于用iPad上的kindle看完了《纠正》(当然是中文的,不过翻译得相当不自然)。 两儿一女的一对老夫妻,丈夫艾尔得了帕金森和阿兹海默病,妻子伊妮德既竭力照顾又心生怨气,对许多事(比如,丈夫的专利被别的公司以5000元买走,丈夫还要分...
评分“她所有的纠正都是枉费心机,他依然像她初次与他见面时一样顽固。”退休铁路工程师、帕金森症晚期病人艾尔弗雷德,在几乎量不出血压的时候,依然在床上躺了一个礼拜,即便是他再也无力于逃避妻子的亲吻和抚摸,他依然会有力的摆动脑袋,来表达他的拒绝。 不过伊妮德...
评分“她所有的纠正都是枉费心机,他依然像她初次与他见面时一样顽固。”退休铁路工程师、帕金森症晚期病人艾尔弗雷德,在几乎量不出血压的时候,依然在床上躺了一个礼拜,即便是他再也无力于逃避妻子的亲吻和抚摸,他依然会有力的摆动脑袋,来表达他的拒绝。 不过伊妮德...
评分近期读的书中,除了乔纳森•弗兰岑的《纠正》外,还有约翰•厄普代克的“兔子四部曲”。阅读几乎是同时进行的,但是从没想过这两位几乎分属于两代人的美国作家之间会产生神秘的联系。直到阅读《纠正》的过程中,我才偶尔发现乔纳森用他一贯略有讽刺的口吻把厄普代克幽默了...
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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.
应该是最后一本franzen了吧,可以想象在当年很火,但是现在这些family problem有点老生常谈了。但就作品本身而言,也有不少能感触到我的地方,有时间做一下读书笔记吧。
评分在米国时与读书俱乐部的朋友一起读的,太长,没啥印象。只记得到了讨论那天,大家弃之不谈,改谈中国的女性地位了。
评分在米国时与读书俱乐部的朋友一起读的,太长,没啥印象。只记得到了讨论那天,大家弃之不谈,改谈中国的女性地位了。
评分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
评分整整三个月,名不虚传,真的是一本很难的书。
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