Screw Irony: What Jonathan Franzen Learned From David Foster Wallace
Charlie Alderman
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Posted 08.29.2011
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James Woods describes Jonathan Franzen, as a "cultural ironist, always a twisted adjective ahead of his characters." I'd argue that this gloss of Franzen misrepresents his two most well-known novels.
