《How to be Alone》是美國作家喬納森·弗蘭岑（Jonathan Franzen）創作的隨筆集，由Picador出版社於2003年10月出版，全書共320頁，ISBN為9780312422165。作者畢業於斯沃思莫學院德文專業，曾獲美國國家圖書獎，代表作包括《糾正》《自由》等小說。
該書收錄多篇評論文章，探討現代社會與個體的關係，涉及性產業、超級監獄及現代傳媒批判等議題。核心內容包含對孤獨、社會疏離與群體關係的觀察，特別收錄1996年引發爭議的《哈潑斯雜誌》文章及作者父親與阿爾茨海默病鬥爭的記錄。部分篇章反思大眾媒體對獨立思考的侵蝕，主張在群體壓力中保持精神獨立性。台灣版《如何獨處》於2015年由新經典圖文傳播出版，屬於“文學森林”叢書第54冊。
基本介紹
- 外文名：How to be Alone
- 作者：Franzen, Jonathan
- 出版時間：2007年7月
- 頁數：320 頁
- ISBN：9780007153589
- 定價：112.00 元
內容簡介
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections' was the best-loved and most written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as 'The Harper's Essay,' Franzen's controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. This essay is reprinted for the...(展開全部) Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections' was the best-loved and most written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as 'The Harper's Essay,' Franzen's controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in 'How to be Alone', alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of 'The Corrections'. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls 'a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance -- even a celebration -- of being a reader and a writer.' At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.
