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Jonathan Franzen


Born
in Western Springs, Illinois, The United States
August 17, 1959

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Genre
Fiction

Influences
Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy, William Gaddis, Alice Munro, Thomas Pynchon, ...more


Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
Franzen has contributed to The New Yorker magazine since 1994. His 1996 Harper's essay "Perchance to Dream" bemoaned the state of contemporary literature. Oprah Winfrey's book club sele ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 554,654 ratings · 47,748 reviews · 90 distinct works • Similar authors
The Corrections
3.85 avg rating — 201,083 ratings — published 2001 — 215 editions
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Freedom
3.80 avg rating — 176,565 ratings — published 2010 — 160 editions
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Crossroads
4.06 avg rating — 69,060 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions
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Purity
3.65 avg rating — 52,027 ratings — published 2015 — 106 editions
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How to Be Alone
3.58 avg rating — 12,715 ratings — published 2002 — 60 editions
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The Discomfort Zone: A Pers...
3.42 avg rating — 6,669 ratings — published 2006 — 73 editions
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Strong Motion
3.54 avg rating — 6,272 ratings — published 1992 — 61 editions
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The Twenty-Seventh City
3.13 avg rating — 5,381 ratings — published 1988 — 85 editions
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Farther Away
3.60 avg rating — 3,994 ratings — published 2012 — 59 editions
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The End of the End of the E...
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“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.”
― Jonathan Franzen
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“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists
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“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”
― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
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Welk boek gaan we in februari 2021 lezen? (Een boek wat je gekocht hebt maar al een lange tijd nooit hebt opgepakt om te lezen)

Trots en Vooroordeel van Jane Austen - 527 pagina's
 
  22 votes, 16.5%

Wolkenatlas van David Mitchell - 560 pagina's
 
  20 votes, 15.0%

Jehanne van Simone van der Vlugt - 208 pagina's
 
  8 votes, 6.0%

Bloed en beenderen van Tomi Adeyemi - 474 pagina's
 
  8 votes, 6.0%

 
  8 votes, 6.0%

22-11-1963 van Stephen King - 879 pagina's
 
  7 votes, 5.3%

 
  7 votes, 5.3%

Hart van Inkt van Cornelia Funke - 491 pagina's
 
  6 votes, 4.5%

De Wildernis in van Jon Krakauer - 284 pagina's
 
  6 votes, 4.5%

Waterschapsheuvel van Richard Adams - 448 pagina's
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

 
  5 votes, 3.8%

Ik ben Pelgrim van Terry Hayes - 735 pagina's
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

Het Laatste Rijk van Brandon Sanderson - 639 pagina's
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

Ik ook van jou van Ronald Giphart - 181 pagina's
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

 
  5 votes, 3.8%

 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Niets te vrezen van Julian Barnes - 256 pagina's
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Het eeuwige vuur van Ken Follett - 862 pagina's
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

De correcties van Jonathan Franzen - 504 pagina's
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Terug naar Mountfern van Maeve Binchy - 687 pagina's
 
  1 vote, 0.8%

 
  1 vote, 0.8%

Bruggenbouwers van Jan Guillou - 592 pagina's
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

133 total votes
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