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”。
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.
那本已经夭折的杂志《大方》第二期上曾刊登过美国作家乔纳森•弗兰岑的一篇随笔《远方》。那是一篇风格有些奇特的随笔,可以看作是游记与小说理论的结合体。那篇文字给我留下印象深刻的是弗兰岑为遥远的传统,以史诗为所有文化的主要特征的旧小说观念辩护。前现代文化中,我...
评分《2666》这本书因为太过扯淡,看到一半已经杯扔在一边了。悲催的是这书还是我花了正版的价钱在天猫买的,我想,一个小说家怎么能把小说写成这样——卡夫卡的小说我都能记住他的主人公基本叫k,王小波的小说主人公基本叫王二,2666的主人公我不知道叫什么——他真是该死,还好...
评分人们提到乔纳森.弗兰岑(Jonathan Franzen)总会想起他那双眉紧蹙、神情焦虑的表情——带着这幅表情他登上了2010年8月《时代》周刊的杂志封面。这是《时代》封面近20年来除了斯蒂芬.金之外的唯一作家,与君特•格拉斯、汤姆•沃尔夫、乔治•奥威尔和约翰•厄普代克为伍。...
评分当我跟别人说我喜欢逛书店的时候,我脑袋里首先浮现的就是我熟悉的各种封面。自由的封面吸引我纯粹是因为这个宏大的书名。这是我在豆瓣阅读买这本书的傻逼理由。 Jonathan Franzen,在百度一下了他之后我得到一个好笑的发现:2010年我就错过了他。2010年八月我参加高中那时候组...
回家来将近两个星期,总算把这本书读完了。爱情还是最美好的呀,能让人丢开一切丑陋的东西,只要爱的那个人在身边。真羡慕作家,可以构想出那么多人的生活和命运。
评分只能说中文翻译失了灵气。
评分3.5,几条故事线中写得最好的就是Walter和Patty之间撕心裂肺的感情纠葛,最不可信的是Walter的Trust Fund和儿子Joey的summer intern。对当前美国精神危机之下核心家庭所面对的社会、道德问题,对人性与情感的描写鞭辟入里,另一方面许多情节转折、人物设置和境遇又刻意得让人扬起眼角。最为本身为书中世界观之一object的Patty的自传,虽然本身并不是bad literature,但这种设置本身极其不让人信服。情节发展有时拖延得冗长痛苦。总体而言肯定是被媒体过誉的一部小说,但还是挺有可读性的。
评分One of the finest books I read in 2012, it is also a milestone -- from now on I am one foot stepped in the door of American contemporary literature (I mean fiction)
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.
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