词条 | How to Be Alone (book) |
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| name = How to Be Alone | title_orig = | translator = | image = Howtobealonecvr.jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = Jonathan Franzen | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Essays | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux | release_date = October 1, 2002 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 278 pp (first edition, hardback) | isbn = 0-374-17327-3 | isbn_note = (first edition, hardback) | dewey= 814/.54 21 | congress= PS3556.R352 H69 2002 | oclc= 49226197 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} How to Be Alone is a 2002 book collecting fourteen essays by American writer Jonathan Franzen. EssaysMost of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum. In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book," Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone."[1] "The Harper's Essay" and "My Father's Brain"{{See also|Why Bother? (essay)}}Included in the collection are "Why Bother?"—a revised version of "Perchance to Dream," Franzen's infamous 1996 Harper's essay on the novelists' obligation to social realism—and "My Father's Brain," nominated for a 2002 National Magazine Award. The latter essay details the elder Franzen's struggle with Alzheimer's.[2] These experiences informed Franzen’s writing of the character Alfred Lambert in his 2001 novel The Corrections. Later EditionsThe 2003 trade paperback edition includes a fifteenth essay, "Mr. Difficult", on the subject of "difficult" fiction in general and the novels of William Gaddis in particular. To accommodate this additional essay, the essay “Scavenging” was substantially edited. Table of contents
Note: In the trade paperback edition "Mr. Difficult" was inserted after "Control Units". ReceptionJanet Maslin, in The New York Times, called the book "captivating but uneven"—"this collection emphasizes [Franzen's] elegance, acumen and daring as an essayist, with an intellectually engaging self-awareness as formidable as Joan Didion's. He's funny, too." Maslin praised the essay "My Father's Brain" as "a tough, haunting account."[3] In The New York Times Book Review, critic A.O. Scott discussed Franzen's, "calm, passionate critical authority." Scott closed,
References1. ^Franzen, Jonathan, How to Be Alone, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. p. 6. 2. ^Janet Maslin, "Alone With a Good Book, You Are Never Alone," The New York Times, November 4, 2002. 3. ^Maslin, "Alone With A Good Book" November 4, 2002. 4. ^A.O. Scott, "Vaunting Ambivalence," The New York Times Book Review, November 10, 2002. External links
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