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Freedom de Jonathan Franzen

Freedom: MacMillan Audio

Autor Jonathan Franzen David LeDoux
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – sep 2010

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National Book Critics Circle Award (2010), L.A. Times Book Prize (2010), ALA Notable Books (2011)

Ce înseamnă, cu adevărat, să fii liber într-o lume în care fiecare alegere personală pare să lovească în libertatea celuilalt? Notăm cu interes cum Jonathan Franzen revine asupra micro-universului domestic pentru a diseca anatomia unei prăbușiri morale mascate de bune intenții. În Freedom, familia Berglund — Patty, vecina ideală care știe totul despre reciclare, și Walter, avocatul ecologist devotat — devine un laborator pentru studiul eșecului idealurilor contemporane. La intersecția dintre The Corrections și Crossroads, această operă combină satira acidă a disfuncționalității familiale cu o analiză profundă a compromisurilor politice și ecologice. Observăm o continuitate tematică față de The Corrections: dacă acolo Franzen explora dorința de evadare din trecut, în Freedom el investighează povara prezentului și a autonomiei absolute. Ritmul narațiunii este dens, alternând între momente de comedie neagră și episoade de o vulnerabilitate sfâșietoare, pe măsură ce Patty se transformă dintr-o mamă model într-o „Furie” a suburbiilor, iar fiul lor alege să se mute cu vecinii conservatori. Subliniem capacitatea autorului de a transforma dilemele banale — de la piste de biciclete la industria cărbunelui — în mize existențiale majore. Este un portret necruțător al „generației Whole Foods”, scris cu o precizie chirurgicală care nu exclude însă empatia pentru personajele sale profund imperfecte.

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ISBN-13: 9781427210494
ISBN-10: 1427210497
Dimensiuni: 138 x 159 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Ediția:Unabridged.
Editura: Pan Macmillan
Seria MacMillan Audio

Locul publicării:New York, NY

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care apreciază proza densă, de tip „Great American Novel”, ce analizează complexitatea relațiilor de lungă durată. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care micile compromisuri etice ne modelează destinul. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii lui Jonathan Franzen care doresc să înțeleagă evoluția sa de la satira socială spre realismul psihologic profund, oferind o oglindă fidelă a societății moderne.

Despre autor

Jonathan Franzen este unul dintre cei mai importanți romancieri și eseiști americani contemporani, laureat al National Book Award pentru The Corrections și finalist al Premiului Pulitzer. Recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina satira socială cu dramele de familie de mare anvergură, Franzen a devenit o voce critică influentă, adesea exprimându-și îngrijorarea față de impactul tehnologiei și al rețelelor sociale asupra profunzimii umane. Opera sa, care include eseuri publicate în The New Yorker și trilogia începută cu Crossroads, explorează constant tensiunea dintre dorința individuală și responsabilitatea socială, consolidându-i statutul de observator fin al Americii contemporane.

Recenzii

"Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen's latest novel but also David Ledoux's reading of the book... The listener is drawn deeper into the story, experiencing every moment with the Berglunds as they try to cope with the changes in the world and in their home. FREEDOM demonstrates the power of both the written and spoken word." - "AudioFile," winner of an Earphones Award "David LeDoux’s masterly narration is powerful and well paced, comic and poignant. He expertly captures Walter and Patty—with her anxious whinny of a laugh—and their family life with its satisfactions and histrionics. LeDoux also deftly renders the gossiping of the Berglund’s disingenuous neighbors; the frenetic rants of the drug addled Eliza; and the weary, disaffected drawl of sleazy musician Richard." - "Publishers Weekly" "The audio version of "Freedom," read by David LeDoux, is perhaps the best read audio book I've ever heard." - Eric Alterman, "The Nation" “Jona
"Its 25 hours of nonstop audio brilliance that has won [David] Ledoux the Audio File award for best reading of the year...Make no mistake: "Freedom" is one of the best-read audio books of recent years, and well worth the time and emotional involvement that's needed to enjoy it." - "The Winston-Salem Journal" "Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen's latest novel but also David Ledoux's reading of the book... The listener is drawn deeper into the story, experiencing every moment with the Berglunds as they try to cope with the changes in the world and in their home. FREEDOM demonstrates the power of both the written and spoken word." - "AudioFile," winner of an Earphones Award "David LeDoux's masterly narration is powerful and well paced, comic and poignant. He expertly captures Walter and Patty--with her anxious whinny of a laugh--and their family life with its satisfactions and histrionics. LeDoux also deftly renders the gossiping of the Berglund's disingenuous neighbors; the frenetic rants of the drug addled Eliza; and the weary, disaffected drawl of sleazy musician Richard." - "Publishers Weekly" "The audio version of "Freedom," read by David LeDoux, is perhaps the best read audio book I've ever heard." - Eric Alterman, "The Nation" "Jonathan Franzen's latest, Freedom, is a big, brilliantly evoked novel...Freedom's strongly articulated characters will draw you in, and David LeDoux's intelligent performance maintains the right narrative pace throughout." - "BookPage," Audio of the Month "The highly anticipated follow-up to the National Book Award winner "The Corrections" (2001) lives up to the hype with Franzen's ability to capture the twists and turns of U.S. culture and history while weaving them into the lives of flawed but fully developed characters...If you have a patron wanting one of the most heralded books of this year or decade, this is it." - "Library Journal" "These CDs were over 19 hours long, but the narrator David LeDoux did an excellent job nu

Descriere

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family. 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 neighbor, 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, total 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-outre rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival-still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," 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 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.

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