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The new novel from the author of The Corrections.
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter – environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man – she was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz – outré rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival – still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbour," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
- ISBN-10000737755X
- ISBN-13978-0007377558
- 版Unabridged
- 出版社Fourth Estate Ltd
- 発売日2010/9/23
- 言語英語
- 寸法13.9 x 3.6 x 14.2 cm
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著者について
Jonathan Franzen’s work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
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- 出版社 : Fourth Estate Ltd; Unabridged版 (2010/9/23)
- 発売日 : 2010/9/23
- 言語 : 英語
- ISBN-10 : 000737755X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0007377558
- 寸法 : 13.9 x 3.6 x 14.2 cm
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
人生の半ばでそれぞれが問題を抱え、怒りや鬱を感じているときに、この関係のバランスが崩れ、互いを深く傷つける出来事に発展する。
ある中流家族をめぐる親子関係、愛情の三角関係、家族崩壊、 贖罪、というテーマは、よくある商業作品と変わらない。しかし、フランゼンの作品が一線を画すのは、ありきたりなテーマを扱いつつも、現代アメリカを見事に描いているところである。 Walter、Patty、Richardの人生を通して、現代アメリカ合衆国の社会経済的構造、政治的対立、民主主義の矛盾を描くこの作品は、文中でPattyが読むトルストイの「戦争と平和」の現代米国版という見方もできる。
意外だったのは、エンディングだ。これまでのフランゼンの作品とは異なり、人間の弱さ、愚かさ、失敗などを許し、どんな人間にでも潜んでいる「Goodness(善良さ)」を、あざ笑わずに信じさせてくれる。最後の20ページは涙で字が読めなかったほどだ。
細かい字で600ページ近い長編だが、1行として無駄を感じなかった。
近年で最も読み応えを感じた1冊である。
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I wouldn't go that far--but it is certainly an excellent novel which succeeds on several levels. It is literary, yet it is blockbuster stuff in its commercial connotations, with lots of sex and topical concerns. A novel for our times, yet one which resonates with the classics.
The first section is a very comfortable read. For a time, it seemed almost a parody or tribute to Garrison Keillor's monologues about Lake Woebegone, such as collected in his volume, LIBERTY. It opens in Minnesota too, but instead of a rural neighborhood, this is the suburbs, and the narrative seemingly turns onto the set of Wisteria Lane in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.
Still, the first section, entitled "Good Neighbors," is an entertaining satire, nicely paced and well sprinkled with insights about archetypical types. I especially enjoyed the conspiratorial tone.
The next section is an autobiography of one of the main characters written in the third person with editorial asides. This sets the out the main characters and the plot for the novel, though the novel has already been succinctly foreshadowed in the lone epigraph:
Go, together
You precious winners all. I, an old turtle,
Will wing me to some withered bough, and there
My mate, that's never to be found again,
Lament till I am lost. --Shakespeare, THE WINTER'S TALE
As I say, much of the novel is about winners and losers, freedom vs. responsibility. Franzen sets up a trinity of main characters, Patti and her husband Walter as suburban Adam and Eve, and Adam's friend, Richard, as the snake in the Garden.
This trinity consists of Walter (mind/spirit dominated), Richard (flesh dominated), and wishy-washy Patti, who wants to have both and wavers between the two.
About midway through the book, Lilitha is introduced. Make no mistake, she is an incarnation of Lilith from the Garden of Eden Myth, a mirror to Richard, with a Lilith agenda against population growth, babies--and childbirth in principle.
Franzen uses literary and musical references to support his arguments (and much of the novel seems argued). Regarding winners and losers, he mentions Bob Dylan's showing up Donovan in the documentary, "Don't Look Back." He shows Richard reading his favorite new novelist, Thomas Bernhard, but doesn't tell us which book he is reading.
Of course, if you've read Thomas Bernhard's THE LOSER, you would know which book it was, for that is the world in which Richard would find himself at home.
And Patti reads WAR AND PEACE, skimming over the military parts to get to Tolstoy's soap-opera sections, which resonate well with this novel. The text mentions WAR AND PEACE several times as if justify its own use of melodrama--see, the classics used soap too.
Other classical references are mentioned: Aristotle and the different kinds of causes: Material, efficient, formal, and final. Walter sees the final cause of most of the world's problems as unlimited population growth, which aligns him with Lilith.
Richard is a counter-culture rock musician who finally becomes successful after souring on the business, as can be seen in an interview after a Grammy nomination. Note the reference to Rousseau:
"Q: What do you think of the MP3 revolution?
A: Ah, revolution, wow. It's great to hear the word "revolution" again. It's great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavor and you have to spend another buck.
That era which finally ended but yesterday, whenever--you know, that era when we pretended rock was the scourge of conformity and consumerism, instead of its anointed handmaid--that era was really irritating to me. I think it's good for the honesty of rock and roll and good for the country in general that we can finally see Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop for what they really were: as manufacturers of winter-green Chiclets.
Q: So you're saying rock has lost its subversive edge?
A: I'm saying it never had any subversive edge. It was always wintergreen Chiclets, we just enjoyed pretending otherwise.
Q: What about when Dylan went electric?
A: If you're going to talk about ancient history, let's go back to the French revolution. Remember when, I forget his name, but that rocker who wrote "Marseillaise, Jean Jacques Whoever--remember when his song started getting all that airplay in 1792, and suddenly the peasantry rose up and overthrew the aristocracy? There was a song that changed the world.
Attitude was what the peasants were missing. They already had everything else--humiliating servitude, grinding poverty, unpayable debts, horrific working conditions. But without a song, man, it added up to nothing. The sansculotte style was what really changed the world.
...We in the Chiclet manufacturing business are not about social justice, we're not about accurate or objectively verifiable information, we're not about meaningful labor, we're not about a coherent set of national ideals, we're not about wisdom. . ."
After finishing the book, you'll have to ask yourself, is this book brilliant and profound or is it just another box of wintergreen Chiclets?
Seems to me, the correct answer is: both.