Jonathan Franzen Libros

¿QUIÉN ES JONNY VALENTINE? Es el "Ángel del Pop", un rompecorazones de once años con una voz cautivadora. Su madre, una cajera de supermercado convertida en mánager, lucha por mantenerlo en la cima desde que se hizo famoso en YouTube. Sin embargo, la fama tiene un precio: Jonny necesita zolpidem para dormir. ¿QUÉ LE GUSTA A JONNY VALENTINE? Disfruta de la música, el amor y mimar a las chicas, pero también se dedica a jugar a la videoconsola en suites de hotel, intentar masturbarse y devorar canapés a escondidas. Su ídolo es Michael Jackson. ¿POR QUIÉN SUSPIRA JONNY VALENTINE? Reconoce que su éxito se debe a sus fans, pero, a pesar de su popularidad, no ha podido conocer a ninguna chica. Su primer amor es un montaje y su único amigo es su guardaespaldas; su padre lo abandonó hace tiempo. Siempre rodeado de gente, Jonny se siente solo. ¿QUÉ SERÁ DE JONNY VALENTINE? Su canción de amor es un himno a la ternura y a la magia de la primera vez, reflejando sentimientos puros en un mundo cínico, al tiempo que ofrece una sátira aguda de la industria musical y la vida adulta. Esta segunda novela ha sido aclamada en EE.UU., destacando a Teddy Wayne como una de las voces más relevantes de su generación, retratando a un niño que no puede ser niño ni crecer.

Sophie y Otto Bentwood son una acomodada pareja neoyorquina de mediana edad, sin hijos y con una vida aparentemente envidiable, rodeada de pequeños lujos, alta cultura y amistades cool, que vive en una casa remodelada en un Brooklyn que apenas comienza a gentrificarse. Una noche, un gato callejero muerde a Sophie cuando ella le da de comer. Este accidente, aparentemente anodino, será el pistoletazo de salida de una serie de pequeñas tragedias, de pequeños encuentros y desencuentros que, de manera tan sutil como quirúrgica, dibujan el quebrado y turbulento paisaje interior de Sophie. Convencida de haber contraído la rabia, Sophie parece verlo todo a través de unos ojos febriles y de un malestar impreciso, creciente. Así, el miedo a padecer la enfermedad se mezcla, paulatinamente, con la otra «rabia», con esa combustión interior en la que arden los sueños rotos y el hastío ante una vida sin sentido. «Bajo el caparazón de la vida corriente y sus pactos imperfectos, acechaba la anarquía», reflexiona Sophie en cierto momento. De esa fractura, de esa convulsa y soterrada angustia que subyace bajo la impoluta superficie de la privilegiada pero vacua y convencional cotidianidad de Otto y Sophie trata Personajes desesperados, un libro que juega sabiamente con la tensión entre la mesura y el desgarro para señalar el vértigo y el vacío al que se abren las vidas de sus protagonistas.

Set in East Berlin, this satirical novel blends humor and poignancy, capturing the absurdities of life in a divided city. Its vivid characters navigate a landscape filled with challenges, evoking both laughter and deep emotion. Critics praise its brilliance, highlighting the author's ability to tackle serious themes while maintaining a light-hearted tone. The narrative promises a unique exploration of resilience and the human spirit against the backdrop of a significant historical context.

"Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s"

At once a searing indictment of corporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life."--BOOK JACKET.

Korean edition of THE CORRECTIONS: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen, the winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction. Author Franzen deftly sketches a portrait of the modern American dysfunctional family and marriage. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother -- her only family -- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world -- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong."--Jacket

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.

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author ofFreedom. Purity Tyler, known to all as Pip, is an outspoken, forthright young woman struggling to make a life for herself. She sleeps in an rickety commune in Oakland. She's in love with an unavailable older man and is saddled with staggering college debt. She has a crazy mother and doesn't know who her father is. A chance encounter leads her to an internship in South America with the world-famous Sunlight Project, the president of which is Andreas Wolf, a charismatic genius who grew up privileged but disaffected in the German Democratic Republic. Like numerous women before her, she becomes obsessed with Andreas, and they have an intense, unsettling relationship. Eventually, he finds her work back in the United States. What lies underneath is a wild tale of hidden identities, secret wealth, neurotic fidelity, sociopathy, and murder. The truth of Pip's parentage lies at the centre of this maelstrom, but before it is resolved Franzen takes us from the rain-drenched forests of northern California, to paranoid East Berlin before the fall of the Wall, to the paradisiacal mountain valleys of Bolivia, exposing us to the vagaries of radical politics, the problematic seductions of the internet, and the no-holds-barred war between the sexes. Featuring an unforgettable cast of inimitable Franzenian characters, Purity is deeply troubling, richly moving, and hilarious.

Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections." Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed novel was widely discussed, particularly regarding "The Harper's Essay," his controversial 1996 exploration of the American novel's fate. This essay appears for the first time in How to be Alone, alongside personal essays and insightful reportage that garnered Franzen a broad readership prior to his novel's success. His subjects, ranging from the sex-advice industry to the workings of a supermax prison, delve into recurring themes: the erosion of civic life, private dignity, and the persistent loneliness in postmodern America. Recent essays include a poignant piece on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's and a candid account of his brief experience as an Oprah Winfrey author. Collectively, these essays illustrate Franzen's journey "away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance— even a celebration—of being a reader and a writer." They reflect his skepticism toward technology and psychology, a complex relationship with consumerism, and a belief in the tragic nature of individual lives, establishing Franzen as one of our most incisive and entertaining social critics.

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending.

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. This is his memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person, ' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions

* Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014 * Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later through the New England countryside with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amidst a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life in order to understand - and maybe even explain - his behaviour; the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.

Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow transplant. In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven, he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendancy to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation - the beautiful Ariel who gives him cocaine and a blowjob in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed Hungarian morphine fantasy complete with bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. As fresh and beguiling as it is brave and revealing, Joshua Cody has created a book that gives readers a long glimpse into a gorgeous, dark thrashing in the forecourt of death. Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic] is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.

This book delivers the intimate memoir of Franzens growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an excruciating and strangely happy adolescence, and into his adult life with embarrassing and unexpected passions.

Presents newly translated and annotated works of the Viennese satirist who was celebrated by Franz Kafka for his willingness to express unpopular opinions, including the media's manipulation of reality and the dehumanizing nature of technology.

Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent citizens into political conspiracy. Franzen's first novel is already a classic of contemporary fiction.

Walter e Patty arrivano a Ramsey Hill come pionieri di una nuova borghesia: gentili, premurosi, ecologisti. Per loro, che fuggono dai quartieri residenziali, quel luogo è terra di libertà. Eppure qualcosa deve essere andato storto se, dopo qualche anno, scopriamo che Joey, il figlio sedicenne, è andato a vivere a casa degli odiati vicini, Patty è un po' troppo spesso in compagnia di Richard Katz, amico di infanzia del marito e musicista rock, mentre Walter, il devoto della raccolta differenziata e del cibo a impatto zero, viene bollato dai giornali come «arrogante, tirannico ed eticamente compromesso»... Dopo Le correzioni Jonathan Franzen sceglie di nuovo un matrimonio per raccontare ciò che, nostro malgrado o per fortuna, lega tutti gli uomini, in un romanzo spietato e divertente sulle catene che imprigionano e su quelle che rendono più liberi.

« Aurait-il pu y avoir pire maladie pour lui que l’Alzheimer ? Dans ses premiers stades, elle a dissous les liens personnels qui l’avaient préservé des pires effets de son isolement dépressif. Dans ses derniers stades, elle l’a dépouillé des protections de l’âge adulte, du moyen de cacher l’enfant en lui. J’aurais préféré qu’il ait plutôt une crise cardiaque. »Jonathan Franzen a vu son père s’éteindre peu à peu. À partir d’une autopsie de son cerveau que celui-ci avait gagné de son vivant, il revient sur le fléau qui a rongé petit à petit sa famille : la découverte de la maladie, une épouse qui doit devenir mère, ne plus être reconnu… jusqu’au dernier souffle.

Ein Leben mit der Sonne statt nach der Uhr, faire partnerschaftliche Beziehungen, Gewaltverzicht und klimaneutrale Mobilität – was können wir von Vögeln lernen? "Nestwärme" ist ein überraschendes Buch über das Sozialverhalten unserer gefiederten Nachbarn, ein Plädoyer für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit der Natur – und eine augenzwinkernde Aufforderung, das eigene Leben hin und wieder aus einer neuen Perspektive zu betrachten. Der vielfach ausgezeichnete Naturschützer Ernst Paul Dörfler hat ein berührendes Buch über das geheime Leben der Vögel geschrieben, die oft friedvoller und achtsamer miteinander umgehen als wir Menschen.

Jonathan Franzen, ein langjähriger Umweltaktivist, konfrontiert uns mit der Realität des Klimawandels: Die Kontrolle über die Erderwärmung ist verloren, und die Bemühungen der letzten 30 Jahre waren vergeblich. Das Pariser Abkommen und Initiativen wie „Fridays for Future“ kommen zu spät. Doch das bedeutet nicht das Ende. Vielmehr sollten wir uns auf die unvermeidlichen Folgen vorbereiten, wie Brände, Überschwemmungen und Flüchtlingsströme. Es ist entscheidend, alles in unserer Macht Stehende zu tun, um unsere Gesellschaften und Demokratien zu stärken. Franzen plädiert dafür, die Grenzen unserer Möglichkeiten nicht zu leugnen, sondern sich auf das zu konzentrieren, was wir tatsächlich verändern können. Das Buch enthält einen Essay, ein unveröffentlichtes Vorwort des Autors und ein Interview zur Klimakrise, das er 2019 der Zeitung „Die Welt“ gab. Er stellt die Frage, wie wir mit der drohenden Katastrophe umgehen: Entweder wir bleiben in der Hoffnung gefangen und werden frustriert über die Trägheit der Welt, oder wir akzeptieren das Unheil und überdenken, was Hoffnung wirklich bedeutet.

In Het einde van het einde van de wereld behandelt Jonathan Franzen de grote literaire en menselijke thema's die hem al sinds lang bezighouden. Of het nu gaat om de ingewikkelde relatie met zijn oom, zijn eerste, armoedige jaren in New York of zijn gedachten over de alarmerende afname van het aantal vogels op onze planeet: dit boek bevat alle tragische en komische aspecten van Franzens schrijverschap in handformaat. Het einde van het einde van de wereld is een portret van de ontwikkeling van een unieke en volwassen persoonlijkheid die worstelt met zichzelf, met de wereld van de literatuur, en met sommige van de grootste problemen van onze tijd - die in het huidige politieke klimaat zelfs nog groter worden.

In diesem Band der Tübinger Poetik-Vorlesungen 2009 untersuchen Jonathan Franzen und Adam Haslett das Wechselspiel zwischen Leben und Schreiben. Poetikvorlesungen bieten Wissen, das aus Erfahrung und persönlichen Erlebnissen stammt, und sollen keine bloßen Wiederholungen bereits veröffentlichter Texte sein. Stattdessen wird eine biografisch gesättigte Reflexion über das eigene Schreiben und Lesen angestrebt. Diese Vorlesungen thematisieren die Funktion, Wirkung und Rolle des Autors, wobei nicht nur die Rolle im Text, sondern auch die Person des Autors, seine Stimme, Geschichte und Präsenz im Mittelpunkt stehen. Die Frage nach dem Autobiografischen im Roman ist für den Autor von Bedeutung und geht über literaturwissenschaftliche Überlegungen hinaus. Franzen sieht einen Roman als persönlichen Kampf an, während Haslett betont, dass Schriftsteller die Bücher schreiben, die sie selbst lesen möchten. Beide Autoren reflektieren über die Herausforderungen, die das Schreiben mit sich bringt, und die Sehnsucht nach Anerkennung der inneren Konflikte. Franzen, geboren 1959, ist bekannt für Werke wie „Die Korrekturen“, während Haslett, Jahrgang 1970, mit „Union Atlantic“ über die Finanzkrise des 21. Jahrhunderts schrieb.