乔纳森·弗兰岑,美国著名小说家、随笔作家。以抨击现代传媒、书写普通民众著称,作品具有强烈的时代性。
1959年生于伊利诺伊州,1981年毕业于斯沃思莫学院德文专业。1996年,在《哈泼氏》杂志上发表了长篇随笔《偶尔做做梦》,表达了他对文学现状的担忧,从此受到广泛关注。迄 今为止,出版有小说《第二十七座城市》(1988)、《强震》(1992)、《纠正》(2001),随笔集《如何孤独》(2002),以及回忆录《不舒适地带:个人史》(2006)。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。
2010年,第四部小说《自由》一面世即引发抢购热潮,迅速登上各大畅销书榜,被评论界誉为“世纪小说”。
发表于2025-04-06
Freedom 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
by周鸣之 从美国著名作家弗兰岑的小说《自由》中读到关于后9·11时代美国家庭、社会与政治的段落时,颇有些怪异的感觉。一来出于某种众所周知的偏见,600多页的大部头小说,加之以细致的现实主义笔墨刻画当代事件,不免生出今夕何夕的错觉(弗兰岑也以此非同一般的雄心被冠...
评分这小说我竟然在那么短的时间里看了两遍。主要是这故事里什么大事也没有,读第一遍当时也没有啥触动我情绪的感悟,导致我很快忘记了故事是讲什么的,所以第二遍和第一遍一样新鲜。 倒是看第二遍的时候似乎有了点想法:自由,到底是什么呢。 故事里没有一个自由的人,首当其冲是...
评分这是一本受畅销书排行榜的影响购入的书,小说。衡量一本杰出的小说的依据是什么?第一是代入感,第二是真实,第三是对隐藏事物的解密。代入感,就是那种觉得里面的一个场景如同发生在自己身上的似曾相识。这本书做到了。翻译也很好,没有读到任何刻意做作和明显的翻译问题。美...
评分这是一本受畅销书排行榜的影响购入的书,小说。衡量一本杰出的小说的依据是什么?第一是代入感,第二是真实,第三是对隐藏事物的解密。代入感,就是那种觉得里面的一个场景如同发生在自己身上的似曾相识。这本书做到了。翻译也很好,没有读到任何刻意做作和明显的翻译问题。美...
评分独眼 喜欢《自由》的人和不喜欢这本小说的人,基本上格格不入,我是站在喜欢那边的。不喜欢它的人觉得它冗长琐碎,可它那么厚,我每天会急迫地想读上几十分钟甚至一个多小时,把其他事都排到后面,简直像看自己的预言一样急不可耐地关心小说里几乎每个人接下去的命运。 小说...
图书标签: JonathanFranzen 小说 美国 美国文学 英文原版 社会 外国文学 Fiction
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections , a darkly comedic novel about family
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walterenvironmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manshe was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzoutré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rivalstill doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become a very different kind of neighbor,” an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections , Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom ’s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
從不同的角度來描述一金玉其表敗絮其中的近期美國中產家庭。先是被溺愛的孩子離家出走(到鄰居家,囧)貌似一帆風順運動員出生的母親高中時確遭遇過難以啟齒的不幸經歷,早年的陰影是性格扭曲的根源,無節制的寵愛兒子,對父母的冷漠...後來我就沒看了,太厚了,如橫著放的磚頭,再說內容不感興趣
评分masterpiece
评分Didn't finish it. Against all the rave reviews I find the book a duller and far less smart re-write of Rabbit Run. Franzen's style simply does nothing for me: among all the indirect narrations I feel I am only scraping off the surface of the characters instead of living their worlds through them.
评分best novel 2011
评分A masterpiece. It's a book that Tolstoy would have written in a modern setting, about dysfunctional middle class, in the style of bourgeois realism.
Freedom 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书