Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we...
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew.”
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn’t omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China’s economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
作者简介
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Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), a collection of essays (How to Be Alone), a personal history (The Discomfort Zone), and a translation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, all published by FSG. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
选读。第一篇演讲稿挺精彩，讲技术时犀利，如“To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.”讲理论时幽默，如“You can’t deconstruct and undress at the same time.”
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0 有用 周天儿 2012-09-18 11:56:08
晚上一口气看完了，主要是为了thesis paper做准备。读来挺有意思的，出了浓浓基情之外，有些心理状态的小细节的描绘很吸引人。再来，一些生僻词语看着特打击，读着特拗口。惊喜的是，比如书中提到的那种鸟，查了图片，竟然是种很小只的生物。
0 有用 Adrian 2014-07-15 23:38:21
我觉得是真诚的。
0 有用 Rubato 2025-01-08 19:40:45 贵州
选读。第一篇演讲稿挺精彩，讲技术时犀利，如“To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.”讲理论时幽默，如“You can’t deconstruct and undress at the same time.”
0 有用 许三 2015-04-22 22:44:13
a book on books
0 有用 年糕 2017-05-28 02:29:46
作品集。从科技与现代生活、从Masafuera小岛独处攀登到洒下好友骨灰、从无感高尔夫但爱好观鸟到中国和目睹的种种现况……以及之后一篇篇的书评，许多地方写得让人忍不住称妙呼然。