when: 29 June 2022 | venue: NIDA - National Institute of Dramatic Art | cost: Premium: $50 | Full: $45 | Concession: $40 | address: 215 Anzac Parade, Kensington NSW 2033 | website: http://www.swf.org.au | tickets: https://tickets.swf.org.au//3341/3342
published: 27 Jun 2022, 5 min read
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When some reviewers labelled Crossroads as Jonathan Franzen's 'greatest and most perfect novel to date', that's no small claim.
Across his career, Franzen has been celebrated as one of his generation's champions of the form, from The Corrections to Purity or Freedom, a new Jonathan Franzen novel is an event.
But Crossroads proved to be irresistible: one of the books of the summer. And his sweeping, expansive story of the Hildebrandt family in 1970s Chicago is only the beginning. In George Eliot's masterpiece Middlemarch, the name 'A Key to All Mythologies' is a joke: the unfinished manuscript of the pedantic, self-absorbed Reverend Casaubon.
So when Franzen announced that Crossroads was to be the first in a projected trilogy that would constitute his 'Key to All Mythologies' and cover half a century of American life, in lesser hands the prospect might be daunting or risible. But Franzen's exploration of faith and family, hope and loss, grief and striving across generations and against the backdrop of historical change is as satisfying as it is ambitious.
Now, Franzen is coming to Sydney live and in-person, and for one night only you can see him discussing the power of the novel, his singular contribution to it as a form, and what brought him to Crossroads with the Festival's outgoing Artistic Director, Michael Williams.
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When some reviewers labelled Crossroads as Jonathan Franzen's 'greatest and most perfect novel to date', that's no small claim.
Across his career, Franzen has been celebrated as one of his generation's champions of the form, from The Corrections to Purity or Freedom, a new Jonathan Franzen novel is an event.
But Crossroads proved to be irresistible: one of the books of the summer. And his sweeping, expansive story of the Hildebrandt family in 1970s Chicago is only the beginning. In George Eliot's masterpiece Middlemarch, the name 'A Key to All Mythologies' is a joke: the unfinished manuscript of the pedantic, self-absorbed Reverend Casaubon.
So when Franzen announced that Crossroads was to be the first in a projected trilogy that would constitute his 'Key to All Mythologies' and cover half a century of American life, in lesser hands the prospect might be daunting or risible. But Franzen's exploration of faith and family, hope and loss, grief and striving across generations and against the backdrop of historical change is as satisfying as it is ambitious.
Now, Franzen is coming to Sydney live and in-person, and for one night only you can see him discussing the power of the novel, his singular contribution to it as a form, and what brought him to Crossroads with the Festival's outgoing Artistic Director, Michael Williams.
Go see An Evening with Jonathan Franzen 2022.
An Evening with Jonathan Franzen 2022 is on 29 June 2022. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Kensington. Call 02 9256 4200 for details. Visit their website at http://www.swf.org.au.
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