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.
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”。
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。...
评分自由与束缚,本是两个相悖的概念,犹如鱼与熊掌不可得兼。自由主义者游走于现实与理想的两极,在时代与自我之间寻求某种微妙的平衡,却常常于不经意间陷入现实的泥淖无以自拔。从《纠正》到《自由》,这种现代人的生存困境始终是美国作家乔纳森•弗兰岑关注的重点所在。 小...
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《自由》是乔纳森•弗兰岑的最新作品,自2010年末问世便受到包括美国总统奥巴马在内的各界人士追捧,被称为“后世得以了解21世纪美国的文学范本”。弗兰岑本人也借此作登上《时代》周刊封面,并被冠以“伟大的美国作家”之名。那么,这究竟是一部什么样的作品呢?作为一个读...
评分贯穿始终的一个问题是,这本书为什么叫自由?我不知道,比起能写几千字严肃书评的人,我也算不上是什么有特别的文学艺术鉴赏力的人。可能是最近自己一个人,所以脑袋运转的也勤快了起来。所以还是有一些模糊的未成形的想法,对于本书的解读未必是正确的,但是对于自己的启示而...
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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评分You are a child of your family...
评分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
评分平面的文字写出生活的一切维度 只看我能体会几重
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