luni, 11 ianuarie 2016
Romanul de care vorbeşte toată lumea: PURITY, de Jonathan Franzen.
Publicat pe 22 aug. 2015
“PURITY”By Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)Jonathan Franzen’s highly anticipated new novel, “Purity,” is about, well, pretty much everything.In 2001, Franzen captured the cultural zeitgeist with “The Corrections” and hasn’t let it go. Time magazine declared him to be a “Great American Novelist,” on the cover no less.He followed with “Freedom” in 2010, and now “Purity.” The story, told over 563 pages, moves around a lot, kind of like a cosmic ferret turned loose on the globe.Andreas Wolf is a Julian Assange-ish character who runs his WikiLeaks-like operation out of Bolivia. He goes to considerable lengths to lure Purity “Pip” Tyler into his web.You’re meant to make something of Purity versus Wolf and to think of Charles Dickens in connection with the name Pip.Purity was raised in a cabin amid the redwoods near Santa Cruz, Calif., by an exceedingly tiresome