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Kruispunt (2021)

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"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen's novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident."--… (més)
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Crossroads de Jonathan Franzen (2021)

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As soon as I finished, I read six or eight published professional reviews, which varied so widely that it sometimes seemed they were reviewing different books. One thought it was written so breezily that they likened it to a "beach read"; another valued the intense psychological depth given to all the characters. One thought the prose was flat and careless; another admired the skill with which each sentence was obviously constructed. One experienced it as a period family melodrama; another considered it a serious social portrait of its era. Let me go on the record as being in the second camp of all these divides. I read this book over three weeks, thinking intensely about it whenever it wasn't in my hands. I've rarely read anything so vivid. I'm certain that it's destined either to be one of a handful of books read a hundred years from now by people who want to understand the early 1970s, or it's going to be a "cult classic" read by amateur lovers of period novels and assigned by particularly perceptive professors. In either case, it's going to be a classic.

The divide extends to my own house. My wife read it in about four sittings, which flabbergasts me. For me, involving as it was ("This is like watching the best movie I've ever seen," I said at one point), Crossroads was a sometimes painful revisit of my own adolescence, including a life-changing involvement in a church-sponsored youth group later in the '70s. It was also an empathetic but pitiless deep dive into the mindsets of five people, all very different, whom it's almost impossible not to judge in the same harsh way we judge ourselves, simply because we are taken so deeply into their thoughts and feelings. But just as we flog ourselves over our awkwardnesses, stupidities and secret shame, all the while insisting that we're not bad people, it's difficult to consider any of these people villains—however close each of them may come. It can be a squirmy experience watching the train wrecks these people get into. But at the same time, each of them can truthfully call out the primal scream of the human condition: "I'm doing the best I can!"

I will say (and despite our different experiences of the book, my wife agrees with me on this) that the ending is a bit sudden and inconclusive, with only slight attention being paid to the novelistic need to make things tidy. Franzen has announced this as the beginning of a trilogy and further works will have to be published to make this one feel complete. That's realistic, too, since none of our personal stories are yet ended either. Crossroads is the closest I ever expect to get to the telepathic-empathic experience of being in someone else's head, and that's good enough for me. ( )
  john.cooper | Sep 27, 2023 |
Chicago, 1971. Het gezin van een hulpprediker bereidt zich voor op kerst en zowel ouders als kinderen staan voor belangrijke keuzes in hun leven ( )
  huizenga | Sep 18, 2023 |
Che fatica. Un romanzo che ha il ritmo delle montagne russe, con una parentesi tra pagina 150 e 300 in cui la salita diventa insopportabile e si è molto tentati di scendere, per lo meno io.
Alla fine della fiera, il libro non finisce, Russ, Marion, Clem, Becky e Perry continuano, non ci è dato sapere come e da un certo punto di vista è un gran peccato, perché le ultime 100 pagine hanno un ritmo pazzesco, ne succedono di tutti i colori, le telenovelas possono solo immaginare nei loro sogni più arditi colpi di scena di tale livello.
Beh la storia la sapete no? Russ è un Pastore di una piccola comunità, sposato con Marion che pesa 65 kg e viene definita grassa, maria vergine doveva essere alta un metro e 20 per essere considerata da suo marito grassa e ripugnante. Hanno 4 figli, il più vecchio è Clem che si ritrova all'università scopre il magico mondo del sesso e butta all'aria tutto, poi c'è Becky che gioca a fare la ragazza più popolare di tutto, Perry che è un genio ma si butta sui narcotici e Judson il piccolino a cui spettano un paio di battute su 630 pagine e qualche descrizione del parente di turno mentre sta giocando.
Dimenticavo, Russ è in fissa con una parrocchiana fresca di vedovanza, madre di un amico di Perry che gli rivela il suo coinvolgimento con la droga.

Russ è insopportabile, per lo meno per me, e la fatica che ho provato ad andare avanti con la lettura è principalmente legata alle parti in cui è lui che assume la narrazione. Il romanzo infatti è un'epopea corale, c'è stato un punto a pagina 400 in cui pensavo che il romanzo fosse una sorte di Joiciano Ulisses solo che a più voci, perché tutto stava accadendo in un giorno; ma non è così, poi passano mesi e nelle ultime pagine anche un paio d'anni.
Quindi (scusate se divago) alla fine per quanto detestabili e antipatici a tratti, devo ammettere che Franzen anche stavolta l'ha portata a casa. Poi magari sarà per la mia esperienza di lettrice, non ricordo di aver letto di molte famiglie religiose negli anni '70 (Russ è un pastore mennonita) e di averle lette raccontate in questo modo e se il primo pensiero (dopo ovviamente l'iniziale delusione per un finale non finale) è: ma Franzen quanto li detesta? ma ci gode a raccontarli così? alla fine no, non li detesta, non so se ci gode, forse anche si, ma di sicuro ci vuole anche coraggio a portare sulla carta una storia del genere, raccontarla con perizia, farti entrare nella coscienza di questi personaggi senza nasconderti le loro vergogne e miserie. Quindi si dai, è valsa la pena arrivare alla fine, anche se c'è di meglio.

Marion mi è piaciuta tanto tanto, Becky alla fine proprio no. ( )
  Mav_Danto | Jul 28, 2023 |
I was intrigued by the theme of family members growing detached from each other and the previous books I read by Jonathan Franzen. The theme was there and it was realistically captured from different perspectives, but the story was somehow dragging and there was no part when I was captured by it. I read some other books in between but somehow I got back to this one and eventually made it through. I was not impressed and feel that I should not have bothered. ( )
  Lady_Lazarus | Jul 12, 2023 |
This is a good book
Franzen can write himself some decent prose. ( )
  soraxtm | Apr 9, 2023 |
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De grauwe hemel, doorstreept met kale eiken en iepen van het voorstadje New Prospect, beloofde de samengang van twee weersfronten in een witte kerst toen Russ Hildebrandt in zijn Plymouth Fury-sattionwagen stapte voor zijn ochtendronde langs de huizen van bedlegerige en seniele gemeenteleden van zijn hervormde kerk.
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"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen's novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident."--

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