Freedom Reread
«What can reading Franzen tell us about fiction and what we want from it, and don't, and how that changes? Gibson pushes past both eyerolling dismissals of Franzen and the uncritical accolades of Oprah and Time magazine and takes the novels seriously as complex, if flawed, works of fiction that inspire and reward immersive and close reading.»
Briallen Hopper, author of <i>Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions</i>
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231188920
- Utgivelsesår
- 2023
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
«What can reading Franzen tell us about fiction and what we want from it, and don't, and how that changes? Gibson pushes past both eyerolling dismissals of Franzen and the uncritical accolades of Oprah and Time magazine and takes the novels seriously as complex, if flawed, works of fiction that inspire and reward immersive and close reading.»
Briallen Hopper, author of <i>Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions</i>
«Franzen fanatics of the world, rejoice! L. Gibson gifts us not only an excellent study of Franzen’s Freedom—but also a brilliantly ambivalent autofictional self-portrait that teaches us what it feels like to be trapped inside the event horizon of the literary singularity known as Jonathan Franzen.»
Lee Konstantinou, author of <i>The Last Samurai Reread</i>
«A passionate, scholarly attempt to sort out one of American literature’s most divisive figures.»
Kirkus Reviews