{"id":1648,"date":"2011-01-27T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T08:38:51","slug":"how-to-be-alone-jonathan-franzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/how-to-be-alone-jonathan-franzen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8222;How to be alone&#8220; &#8211; Jonathan Franzen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/How-Be-Alone-Fourth-Estate\/dp\/0007153589\/?tag=gcnewde-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how_to_be_alone.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&quot;How to be alone&quot; - Jonathan Franzen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how_to_be_alone.jpg 300w, https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how_to_be_alone-170x170.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNach dem tollen Freedom habe ich mir zwei weitere B&#252;cher von Jonathan Franzen besorgt. <em>The Corrections<\/em> war mir erst einmal zu lang, also fing ich an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/How-Be-Alone-Fourth-Estate\/dp\/0007153589\/?tag=gcnewde-21\">How to be alone<\/a> zu lesen:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDeath is a severing of the connection between self and world, and, since the self can&#8217;t imagine not existing, perhaps what&#8217;s really scary about the prospect of dying is not the extinguishment of my consciousness but the extinguishment of the world.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nInhalt des Buchs sind 15 Essays aus den Jahren 1994 bis 2002. Es werden keine Geschichten erz&#228;hlt, oder besser: es werden keine fiktiven Geschichten erz&#228;hlt und in erster Linie geht es um das, was der Autor zu verschiedenen Themen denkt, die ihn bewegen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIch fand das leider ziemlich langweilig, weil langwierig: in den meisten F&#228;llen h&#228;tte ich ihn auch verstanden, wenn er den Inhalt deutlich gestrafft h&#228;tte. Aber gut. Abgehakt und zumindest eine neue Buchempfehlung aus einem seiner Essays mitgenommen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/JR-William-Gaddis\/dp\/1843541653\/?tag=gcnewde\">&#8222;JR&#8220; von William Gaddis<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Nachtrag:<\/strong> Ich hatte mir ja eigentlich vorgenommen, zu jedem Buch dass ich lese, kurz etwas ins Blog zu schreiben, aber bei <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Freedom-Jonathan-Franzen\/dp\/0374532575?tag=gcnewde-21\">Freedom<\/a> von Jonathan Franzen habe ich das wohl schon vergessen &#8211; und dabei hat das Jahr gerade mal angefangen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nach dem tollen Freedom habe ich mir zwei weitere B&#252;cher von Jonathan Franzen besorgt. The Corrections war mir erst einmal zu lang, also fing ich an How to be alone zu lesen: Death is a severing of the connection between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/how-to-be-alone-jonathan-franzen\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augenblicke","category-buecher_texte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}