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The Terminal Glide Path of the Established « A Practical PolicySun, 18 Jan 2009 23:58:16 +0000http://fifthestate.co.uk/2009/01/25th-estate-jonathan-franzen-on-the-social-novel/#comment-245385[...] The Terminal Glide Path of the Established January 18, 2009 — tc Pointed incoherence is hallmark of Jonathan Franzen’s thoughts about the social novel (fiction that is especially sociopolitically engaged). This telling garble is demonstrated in the 1996 essay Franzen wrote on the social novel – both the original and revised version, “Perchance to Dream” in Harpers and “Why Bother?” in How to Be Alone – and recurs most recently in an interview this January 2009 at 5th Estate where Franzen states with trademark non sequitur: [...]
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Jonathan Franzen, Helping to Write American Culture’s Death Sentence « Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction NotesSun, 11 Jan 2009 13:33:20 +0000http://fifthestate.co.uk/2009/01/25th-estate-jonathan-franzen-on-the-social-novel/#comment-245380[...] I’ve been thinking about this in relation to Jonathan Franzen’s recent statements to 5th Estate about the state of social novel (via the Millions and OUPblog). Franzen takes a few whacks at his youthful naivete in thinking that his writing would somehow generate social change, then explains how he’s now narrowed his ambitions: I recognize that there’s a small but non-zero segment of the population that feels and thinks in all of those literary ways, and that my task is to reach them and to participate in the life of that segment of the population. This is what I’m writing for, for the people who want a literary experience. I’m no longer worried that nobody besides me can have that kind of experience, but I’m also not imagining that, in any conceivable twist of history, everybody will want that kind of experience. So it’s a weird and possibly selfish-seeming form of communitarianism: I’ve ceased to care much, as a writer, about people who don’t care about books. [...]
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FifthEstate.co.ukThu, 08 Jan 2009 14:52:41 +0000http://fifthestate.co.uk/2009/01/25th-estate-jonathan-franzen-on-the-social-novel/#comment-248769<span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">25th Estate: Jonathan Franzen on the Social Novel:
In the first of our two part interview with world renowned a.. http://tinyurl.com/9sum7g</span>
<div class="topsy_trackback_links">[<a href="http://twitter.com/fifthestate/status/1104588795">Original tweet</a>, <a href="http://topsy.com/tb/fifthestate.co.uk/2009/01/25th-estate-jonathan-franzen-on-the-social-novel/">Topsy page</a>]</div></span>25th Estate: Jonathan Franzen on the Social Novel:
In the first of our two part interview with world renowned a.. http://tinyurl.com/9sum7g