The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

ISBN-13: 9780374906757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

Jonathan Franzen

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections.

The End of the End of the Earth gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu.

Recenzje

"The work of a writer at the top of his game-limber and lovely, delivering deep insights with delicacy and grace." -Sarah Crown, The Guardian

"Franzen, unlike many, listens. It's what makes him one of the best living writers of fictional dialogue, and it's what makes his arguments productively provocative." -Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

"[Franzen's] turning over rocks along the shore and finding noteworthy details beneath." -Bill McKibben, The New York Times Book Review

"If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, the "test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function", then Franzen has passed with flying colours." -Andrew Gallix, The Irish Times

"The End of the End of the Earth feels carefully crafted around a central concern: 'How do we find meaning in our actions when the world seems to be coming to an end?' . . . Franzen proves himself up to the challenge of the essay as a form, as 'something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative,' and of a subject so vast and important that it affects us all. Ignore the tweets, read the book." -Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times

Spis treści

CONTENTS

THE ESSAY IN DARK TIMES 1

MANHATTAN 1981 23

WHY BIRDS MATTER 33

SAVE WHAT YOU LOVE 41

CAPITALISM IN HYPERDRIVE 67

MAY YOUR LIFE BE RUINED 75

A FRIENDSHIP 97

A ROOTING INTEREST 109

TEN RULES FOR THE NOVELIST 123

MISSING 127

THE REGULARS 147

INVISIBLE LOSSES 155

9/13/01 175

POSTCARDS FROM EAST AFRICA 181

THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH 193

XING PED 227

O autorze

Franzen, JonathanJonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads, and five works of nonfiction, most recently Farther Away and The End of the End of the Earth, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.