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.
這是一本據說在美國影響頗大的一本小說,在很多電影電視中都能看到它是主人公的最愛。但整整一年中,我把這本書拿起又放下,閱讀就是無法持續。認真反思,總的一條,翻譯太不好,生硬不說,還語義不清,根本不知所雲!書的版麵設計也很差,一眼看過去,文字稀稀拉拉就像沒有幾...
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...
評分喬納森•弗蘭岑說:“這本書忠實地記載瞭我這個人。” 2001年《糾正》齣版之時,他的父親已於1995年過世,母親也在前幾年過世,他十四年的婚姻也早已崩解。這時候,他自己,是他唯一的“傢”。 他齣生於1959年,工程師父親,傢庭主婦母親。他是個老來子,傢裏還有兩個大很多...
評分BOMB雜誌於2001年鞦天專訪喬納森•弗蘭岑,原載於INK 2012年11月第九捲第三期,譯者陳佳琳。 訪談人:唐納德•安特裏姆(1958年齣生於美國佛羅裏達州,作品有Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The HundredBrothers, The Verificationist等,曾入圍國際筆會/福剋納...
評分全書613頁總共齣現過“糾正”這個詞七次(如果我沒漏掉幾個的話)。總體分析看來,這些“糾正”都是有意設置的。 【1】P51,第二行。“過瞭五星期,糾正瞭共計一萬或五韆個錯誤之後,在萬聖節那個颳風的夜晚,他依然在批改論文。” 這裏寫的是奇普還是教授的時候,孜孜不倦地...
糾正
评分在米國時與讀書俱樂部的朋友一起讀的,太長,沒啥印象。隻記得到瞭討論那天,大傢棄之不談,改談中國的女性地位瞭。
评分中間部分有些纍贅,不過開頭結尾都還不錯。真理部若有興趣,估計不會放過對Lambert一傢的傢庭生活進行政治解讀的機會。但是某些人性深處的東西,應該不受製度邊界的束縛纔對。
评分看得太纍瞭。這麼寫生活也是種抵抗無聊的方式——隻對作者而言。
评分在米國時與讀書俱樂部的朋友一起讀的,太長,沒啥印象。隻記得到瞭討論那天,大傢棄之不談,改談中國的女性地位瞭。
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