| 词条 | Here I Am (novel) |
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| name = Here I Am | image = Here_I_Am_by_Jonathan_Safron_Foer_first_edition_book_cover.jpg | image_caption = First edition, 2016 | author = Jonathan Safran Foer | country = United States | language = English | cover_artist = | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux | pub_date = September 6, 2016 | media_type = Print | pages = 592 (first edition, hardback) | isbn = 978-0374280024 | isbn_note = (first edition, hardback) |italic title=yes |website = Here I Am }} Here I Am is a 2016 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. It depicts a series of events that impact members of a Jewish family living in Washington, D.C., which some reviewers suggest includes autobiographical elements of Foer’s life. Here I Am is the first new novel published by Foer in over ten years, and it is the first in Foer's three-book installment with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. PlotChristian Lorentzen has described the plot as a blend of several different events, including "[a] divorce, a suicide, a bar mitzvah, an earthquake, an all-out Middle Eastern war, and the putting to sleep of a family dog".[1] These plot elements are tied together through a central narrative about the ways in which these events impact the lives of a Jewish family living in Washington, D.C.[2][3] Daniel Menaker notes that the "collage" of narratives overlap with one another at times, though they also sometimes conflict with each other.[3] Jennifer Maloney has suggested that the novel contains several autobiographical elements.[4] Constance Grady also cited similarities between Jacob Bloch, a character in the novel, and events in Foer's own life.[5] When asked to describe the novel, author Jonathan Safran Foer said, "I would say it’s not my life but it’s me."[4] BackgroundHere I Am is Foer's third novel, following Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005).[2][6] It is the first in Foer's three-book installment with publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[7] The phrase "here I am" is derived from the biblical account of the words that were spoken by Abraham when he was asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac.[6][8] Foer stated that he wrote two-thirds of Here I Am in the final year of his work on the novel.[9] According to Time, Foer's work on the novel "went into high gear" after Foer decided to stop working on a planned television show for HBO called All Talk; the planned television show also would have focused on the life of a Jewish family in Washington, D.C.[10] Foer explained that when he worked on the novel at his home, he would write on a laptop computer placed on his lap, and that he would move between rooms of his house whenever he began to experience "the inability to value [his] thoughts", an experience that Foer described as "Jonathan block".[9]See also
References1. ^{{cite news |last=Lorentzen |first=Christian |date=August 18, 2016 |title=With Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer Has Written a Philip Roth Novel in the Style of a Hallmark Card |url=http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/here-i-am-jonathan-safran-foer-tries-to-grow-up.html |newspaper=Vulture |access-date=November 3, 2016}} 2. ^1 {{cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=September 6, 2016 |title=‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/books/here-i-am-jonathan-safran-foers-tale-of-a-fracturing-family.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 3, 2016}} 3. ^1 {{cite news |last=Menaker |first=Daniel |date=September 9, 2016 |title=Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Novel Wrestles With the Demands of Jewish Identity |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/books/review/jonathan-safran-foer-here-i-am.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 3, 2016}} 4. ^1 {{cite news |last=Maloney |first=Jennifer |date=August 31, 2016 |title=Jonathan Safran Foer’s Contrasting Crises |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jonathan-safran-foers-contrasting-crises-1472664751 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=November 6, 2016}} 5. ^{{cite news |last=Grady |first=Constance |date=September 6, 2016 |title=Here I Am is Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in 11 years. It’s sort of worth the wait. |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12757180/here-i-am-review-jonathan-safran-foer |newspaper=Vox |access-date=November 6, 2016}} 6. ^1 {{cite news |last=Preston |first=Alex |date=August 28, 2016 |title=Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer review – trouble on the home front |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/28/here-i-am-jonathan-safran-foer-review |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=November 6, 2016}} 7. ^{{cite news |last=Geeslin |first=Campbell |date=January 5, 2016 |title=The blurb business, what's in a name, & more |url=https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-news/the-blurb-business-whats-in-a-name-more/ |newspaper=The Authors Guild |access-date=November 6, 2016}} 8. ^{{cite news |last=McAlpin |first=Heller |date=September 6, 2016 |title='Here I Am' Grapples With Weighty Matters ... And Weighty Paragraphs |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/06/490101886/here-i-am-grapples-with-weighty-matters-and-weighty-paragraphs |newspaper=NPR |access-date=November 3, 2016}} 9. ^1 {{cite news |last=Safran Foer |first=Jonathan |date=August 27, 2016 |title=Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘I don’t have writer’s block, but am a chronic sufferer of “Jonathan block”’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/27/my-writing-day-jonathan-safran-foer |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=November 6, 2016}} 10. ^{{cite magazine |last=Grossman |first=Lev |date=August 23, 2016 |title=Jonathan Safran Foer’s Family Drama |url=http://time.com/4458055/jonathan-safran-foer-here-i-am/ |magazine=Time |access-date=November 6, 2016}} 2 : 2016 American novels|Novels by Jonathan Safran Foer |
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