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Jonathan E. Franzen ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Einem breiten Publikum bekannt wurde er mit seinem 2001 erschienenen dritten Roman Die Korrekturen, der den National Book Award gewann, Finalist für den Pulitzer-Preis war und sich weltweit 2,85 Millionen Mal verkaufte. 2015 wurde dieser Roman von der BBC-Auswahl der besten 20 Romane von 2000 bis 2014 zu einem der bislang bedeutendsten Werke dieses Jahrhunderts gewählt. Dem folgenden Roman Freiheit schenkten die amerikanischen Medien bei seinem Erscheinen 2010 außergewöhnliche Aufmerksamkeit. Kritiker zählten das Buch zu den besten des Jahres.Thematisch steht in Franzens Romanen das Auseinanderfallen dysfunktionaler Familien im Mittelpunkt. Die Familienmitglieder werden dabei sowohl als Einzelpersonen als auch in ihrem Verhältnis zueinander beleuchtet. Zugleich weisen seine breit angelegten Werke – Die Korrekturen wie auch Freiheit umfassen jeweils über 700 Seiten – auf Zusammenhänge und Ähnlichkeiten zwischen dem Einzelschicksal ihrer Charaktere sowie gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen hin. Unter anderem beschäftigen sie sich mit modernen Problematiken wie Globalisierung, Umweltverschmutzung und dem „Krieg gegen den Terror“, aber auch mit dem Kapitalismus im Allgemeinen und der Kommunikation in Sozialen Netzwerken. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. August 1959  •  Andere Namen جاناتان فرانزن, Ջոնաթան Ֆրանզեն, ଜୋନାଥନ ଫ୍ରାନଜେନ
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“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”

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Jonathan Franzen

“What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Purity

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“A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medication then destroys the libido, in other words destroys the appetite for the one pleasure in life that's free, which means the person has to spend even more money on compensatory pleasures. The very definition of mental 'health' is the ability to participate in the consumer economy. When you buy into therapy, you're buying into buying.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”

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“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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Kontext: All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool?

“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch How to Be Alone

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“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”

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“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said.

Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing."

"Self-inflicted. You pathetic American."

"Different kind of prison" Chip said.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch How to Be Alone

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“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“I admire your capacity for admiring.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch How to Be Alone

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“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch How to Be Alone

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“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

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“For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing… the final tipping balance.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch How to Be Alone

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