Spring Awakening

by Jonathan Franzen

84 pages, Paperback

About the author

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 selection in 2001 of The Corrections led to a much publicized feud with the talk show host.

Reviews

[Tracey Defanto · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE English version of Spring Awakening. The translator took great care to consider the author’s intentions and not get caught up in how the play applied to the time of translation. It seems to be a clean translation. I also love how a portion of the introduction was spent trashing the 2006 musical. Which, while being my introduction to the play, deserves everything it’s accused of, particularly for how they portrayed Hansy and Ernst and how they handled the ending.