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).
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.
這是一本值得仔細閱讀的好書,對照過原文,發現翻譯的特彆棒!我們習慣用一種標準來確定幸福,人為設定一條及格綫,綫上的是好命,綫下的則是不幸。我們所麵對的壓力與痛苦、狹隘與悲觀,往往是由這根及格綫造成的,卻忘瞭其實每一種幸福都有缺陷,而每一種缺憾也自有它的幸福...
評分2014-11-05 發錶於“騰訊·大傢”專欄 終於用iPad上的kindle看完瞭《糾正》(當然是中文的,不過翻譯得相當不自然)。 兩兒一女的一對老夫妻,丈夫艾爾得瞭帕金森和阿茲海默病,妻子伊妮德既竭力照顧又心生怨氣,對許多事(比如,丈夫的專利被彆的公司以5000元買走,丈夫還要分...
評分“她所有的糾正都是枉費心機,他依然像她初次與他見麵時一樣頑固。”退休鐵路工程師、帕金森癥晚期病人艾爾弗雷德,在幾乎量不齣血壓的時候,依然在床上躺瞭一個禮拜,即便是他再也無力於逃避妻子的親吻和撫摸,他依然會有力的擺動腦袋,來錶達他的拒絕。 不過伊妮德...
評分弗蘭岑偏偏就和些“海獺式作傢”站在一個隊伍,寫那種大視野、全景式的傢族小說。他熱愛包羅萬象的生活題材,描寫當下人們的生活方式。他的人物既不是珠寶大盜,也不是人類天纔,他們不過是平凡得不能再平凡的蕓蕓眾生——無法解決自我的睏難,活在當下,而非未來。 喬納森·...
評分我不止一次對莉莉說,大洋彼岸的生活是平靜的,國人對它的嚮往毋寜說對一種田園生活的渴望。它能讓人安靜思考一些事情,畢竟在我們這塊土地上,信息量太大,製度的缺陷又如此顯而易見。 但對生活在那裏的人來說,可選擇的道路反而比我們要少得多。書裏的人物,都像順撇一樣固執...
不分晝夜地讀……作者真的太博學太逗樂瞭。。與Chip産生共鳴最多;至於傢庭關係之類的,沒有搞得太清楚……中部的人真那麼weird嘛,什麼時候體驗一下~
评分整整三個月,名不虛傳,真的是一本很難的書。
评分The first chapter is well-written, the Chip story interesting and amusingly relatable, but then it's just so boring...
评分我看的第一本Jonathan Franzen,也將是我看的最後一本Jonathan Franzen
评分整整三個月,名不虛傳,真的是一本很難的書。
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