Jonathan Franzen is the author of Freedom, selected for Oprah's Book Club, The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion, and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 1996, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. The Corrections won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
Winner of the National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan 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.
当意识到自己已经浪费了太多时间浏览(甚至只是刷新)网页,我(仍然是通过点击)买来了kindle阅览器,而入账的第一本书,是乔纳森•弗兰岑(Jonathan Franzen)的《如何孤独》(How to Be Alone, 2002)。弗兰岑以抨击传媒时代、宣扬文以载道著称,我想我有必要接受他的再教...
评分我不止一次对莉莉说,大洋彼岸的生活是平静的,国人对它的向往毋宁说对一种田园生活的渴望。它能让人安静思考一些事情,毕竟在我们这块土地上,信息量太大,制度的缺陷又如此显而易见。 但对生活在那里的人来说,可选择的道路反而比我们要少得多。书里的人物,都像顺撇一样固执...
评分摘自《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...
评分全书613页总共出现过“纠正”这个词七次(如果我没漏掉几个的话)。总体分析看来,这些“纠正”都是有意设置的。 【1】P51,第二行。“过了五星期,纠正了共计一万或五千个错误之后,在万圣节那个刮风的夜晚,他依然在批改论文。” 这里写的是奇普还是教授的时候,孜孜不倦地...
评分这是一本据说在美国影响颇大的一本小说,在很多电影电视中都能看到它是主人公的最爱。但整整一年中,我把这本书拿起又放下,阅读就是无法持续。认真反思,总的一条,翻译太不好,生硬不说,还语义不清,根本不知所云!书的版面设计也很差,一眼看过去,文字稀稀拉拉就像没有几...
Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
评分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
评分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
评分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
评分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
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