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Jonathan Franzen's work increases major questions about the options of contemporary fiction: So how exactly does one charm to a wide mass of mainstream visitors on the one side while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction is high art? A lot more acutely, how have Franzen move from the trend that animates his first two novels to a lot more generous comic stance of both later novels, on which his reputation rests? Wrestling with these questions, Jonathan Franzen: The Humor of Trend unpacks the becoming of Franzen as a person and a article writer - from his ultrasensitive Midwestern childhood through his heady years at Swarthmore College, his marriage, and the alienating ten years of the 1990s, up to his amazing ascent and assimilation into pop culture as one of the literary characters of his generation. Philip Weinstein joins biography and criticism with techniques that fully value their differences but also offer that the work comes, however unpredictably, out of the life.
