Franzen Jonathan: Kako biti sam

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Author: Franzen Jonathan
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Kako biti sam

Franzen Jonathan

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Jonathan Franzen: How to be alone

After the publication of his third novel Corrections (2001), Jonathan Franzen was declared one of the greatest novelists of today, but only after his book of essays How to be alone did readers find out how difficult and complex the experience of writing the now famous Corrections was, and how much the author's own personal story played a role in the novel: the most famous essay is certainly the introductory one, about the Alzheimer's disease of the author's father, which is interpreted in an unforgettable way in Corrections.

Franzen's dark and pessimistic picture of today's America is not particularly surprising, but the way he paints it is extremely attractive. Franzen writes about the obsession with technology, consumerism and mass culture, about the destruction of private life, unimaginable disenfranchisement in American prisons, superfluous self-help books about sex, and even seemingly such irrelevant and bizarre topics as the Chicago postal system. Whatever he writes about - about Oprah Winfrey, social or political issues or the return of the social novel, Franzen writes entertainingly and competently, but at the same time far from academic presumptuousness.

How to be alone is another excellently written book by Jonathan Franzen, who is obviously as good at essays as he is at novels.

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