![]() ![]() His wife, Patty, is not without her problems. ![]() "Walter becomes this over-the-top angry person - that's part of the arc of his character in the book." "Walter is a portrait in the displacement of unspeakable rage about what's going on in his family through speakable rage about what's going on in his country," Franzen says.Īs he took stock of the way we live in the first decade of the new millennium, Franzen was struck by how angry everybody is. By then, he says, "we could see the decade in some pretty clear perspective."įreedom begins with the story of Patty and Walter Berglund, a couple living in St Paul, Minn. "In some respects it was good fortune for me that I wasn't trying to wrestle with 9/11 as it was being so over-wrestled with in the media."įreedom was written mostly in 2009, Franzen says, after the election of Barack Obama. "I need significant chunks of time to pass before I seem to be able to get a novel going," Franzen tells NPR's Guy Raz. The book has been hailed as a masterpiece of modern, post-Sept. ![]() Freedom is set against the backdrop of the Bush era. ![]() It's taken Franzen nine years to write a follow-up. 1, 2001.Ī few weeks after that, American life was no longer the thing he'd captured so vividly in his book. Jonathan Franzen's last novel, The Corrections, was published on Sept. It's taken Jonathan Franzen nine years to write a follow-up to The Corrections. ![]()
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