The ​Discomfort Zone 4 csillagozás

A Personal History
Jonathan Franzen: The Discomfort Zone Jonathan Franzen: The Discomfort Zone

The excruciating dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970's… the effects of Kafka's fiction on a young man protracted quest to lose his virginity… the web of connections between birdwatching, a collapsing marriage, and global warming: in this comic memoir of self-consciousness, the author of The Corrections tells the story of his life and of the strange country in which he's lived it.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2006

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Fourth Estate, London, 2014
196 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780007234257
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Picador, New York, 2007
196 oldal · ISBN: 9780312426408

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“Everything I do makes me feel guilty,” says Charlie Brown. He’s at the beach, and he has just thrown a pebble into the water, and Linus has commented, “Nice going… . It took that stone four thousand years to get to shore, and now you’ve thrown it back.”

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I felt guilty about neglecting the stiff-limbed, scratchy-pelted Mr. Bear, who had no voice and didn't mixed well with my other stuffed animals. To avoid feeling guilty about them, too, I slept with one of them per night, according to a strict weekly schedule.

39. oldal [Picador, 2006]

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The Saturday-night roads were saturated with a feeling of afterness, of lateness – the rain was'n falling, it had already fallen.

3. oldal [Picador, 2006]

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All of her life, she hated not belonging. Anything that tended to divide us from the rest of the community (her unbelief, my father's sense of superiority) had to be countered with some principle that would draw us back to the middle and help us to fit in. Whenever she talked to me about my future, she stressed that a person's character mattered more than his or her achievements, and that the more abilities a person had, the more he or she owed to the society. People who impressed her were always „able”, never „smart” or „talented”, or even „hardworking”, whereas people who considered themselves „able” were constantly reminded of their debt to the society.

14. oldal [Picador, 2006] (mum)

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Our once limitless-seeming supply of years for having kids, for example, had suddenly and alarmingly dwindled, and to dither for even just a few more years would be permanently ruinous.

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