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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 find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Strong Motion

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“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

Quelle: Freedom

“Use well thy freedom.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch Freedom

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“Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

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“One of the consolations of dying… Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.”

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Jonathan Franzen

"Jonathan Franzen Warns Ebooks are Corroding Values," http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/30/jonathan-franzen-ebooks-values The Guardian (Jan 30, 2012).

“The taste of self-inflicted suffering, of an evening trashed in spite, brought curious satisfactions. Other people stopped being real enough to carry blame for how you felt. Only you and your refusal remained. And like self-pity, or like the blood that filled your mouth when a tooth was pulled - the salty ferric juices that you swallowed and allowed yourself to savor - refusal had a flavor for which a taste could be acquired.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.”

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Jonathan Franzen

Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).

“I’m not the person to ask about what’s normal,’ Denise answered. ‘I’ve mainly seen normal in the rearview mirror.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“It offended his sense of proportion and economy to throw away a ninety-percent serviceable string of lights. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value and, by extension, the value of individuals generally: to willfully designate as trash an object that you knew wasn't trash.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“It's who I am. Put somebody else's comfort ahead of my own? Go hop in a toilet to spare somebody else's feelings? That's the kinda thing you do, fella. You got everything bass ackwards. And look where it's landed you.'
'Other people ought to have more consideration.'
'You oughtta have less. Me personally, I am opposed to all strictures. If you feel it, let it rip. If you want it, go for it. Dude's gotta put his own interests first.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.”

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Jonathan Franzen

Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).

“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.”

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Jonathan Franzen

Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).

“'What's your impression of the ship so far?' she asked. 'Is it really super authentic?'
'Well, it does seem to be floating,' Mr Söderblad said with a smile, 'in spite of heavy seas.'
Enid raised her voice to aid his comprehension. 'I mean, is it AUTHENTICALLY SCANDINAVIAN?'
'Well, yes, of course," Mr. Söderblad said. 'At the same time, everything in the world is more and more American, don't you think?'”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it's just not permanent enough. …it's going to be very hard to make the world work if there's no permanence like that. That kind of radical contingency is not compatible with a system of justice or responsible self-government.”

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Jonathan Franzen

"Jonathan Franzen Warns Ebooks are Corroding Values," The Guardian (Jan 30, 2012).

“Nobody can ever quite say what's wrong exactly. But they all know it's evil. They all know 'corporate' is a dirty word. And if somebody's having fun or getting rich - disgusting! Evil! And it's always the death of this and the death of that. And people who think they're free aren't 'really' free. And people who think they're happy aren't 'really' happy. And it's impossible to radically critique society anymore, although what's so radically wrong with society that we need such a radical critique, nobody can say exactly…. Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“In the years when he'd worked full-time, he'd never complained about frozen or takeout or preprepared dinners. To Caroline it probably seemed that he was changing the rules on her. But to Gary it seemed that the nature of family life itself was changing - that togetherness and filiality and fraternity weren't valued the way they were when he was young.”

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Jonathan Franzen buch The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

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