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Franzen delves further into the state of mind of his creations, developing them into fully imagined human beings not nietzschean stereotypes easily divided into categories of hard shameless, ambitious brutes or soft pathetic, sniveling doormats. But one can also see how that book might have been a fluke. For the past 15 or so years, novelist jonathan franzen has been engaged in friendly literary competition with david foster wallace, whom franzen describes as his main rival and dear friend. Best books to read for a great book club discussion the corrections by jonathan franzen pdf. They talked a lot about the novels ability to relieve loneliness. The novel was also a finalist for the 2002 pulitzer prize, the 2001 national book critics circle award for fiction, and the 2002 penfaulkner award. Freedom by jonathan franzen meet your next favorite book. We are very excited about jonathan franzen s freedom, his first novel since the corrections. Pdf this paper deals with the critical reception of australian writer patrick whites fiction in czechoslovakia, and provides an analysis of. He seemed like a nice guy, with a kinda dry, almost bashful humor.
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