Tag: Franzen
Jonathan Franzen at the Academy for Language and Literature – Culture
Jonathan Franzen, the author of family and social novels that are read around the world, such as “Corrections”, “Freedom” and most recently “Crossroads”, has been accepted into the German Academy…
Franzen, Grisham, Saunders: Writers sue Open AI culture
Franzen, Grisham, Saunders: Some of America’s most important writers have sued the company behind Chat-GPT for copyright infringement. Life, as it says at one point in Jonathan Franzen’s novel “The…
Philipp Oehmkes Familienroman “Schönwald” à la Franzen – Kultur
Warum kriegen das die Deutschen nicht hin, epische Familienromane, wie die Amerikaner? Der Journalist Philipp Oehmke versucht es noch mal. Geht es diesmal gut? Wollen sich deutsche Bildungsbürger mal wieder…
Award: Thomas Mann Prize 2022 for Jonathan Franzen
Award Thomas Mann Prize 2022 for Jonathan Franzen The American writer Jonathan Franzen during a reading from his novel “Crossroads” in the Lübeck Theater. photo © Marcus Brandt/dpa The American…
“Crossroads”, the new novel by Jonathan Franzen – Culture
At the turn of the millennium, the writers Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace wanted to reinvent the novel. The idea was that if contemporary literature was to matter, it…