oncaesura » consciousness http://www.oncaesura.com quiet thoughts Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:05:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 consciousness http://www.oncaesura.com/2009/04/23/consciousness.html http://www.oncaesura.com/2009/04/23/consciousness.html#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:58:34 +0000 oncaesura http://www.oncaesura.com/?p=160 This quote from Franzen seems to explain what his writing shares with that of his more maximalist friends:

No matter how much steam is coming out of my ears as I’m stuck in traffic between Santa Cruz and Boulder Creek, no matter how ridiculous and sick my rage against the slow driver ahead of me might be, I can’t help putting my rage in the context of gasoline prices, exurbanization, sprawl, consumer-based individuality, consumer “freedom”— all those things that being stuck in an automobile now brings to mind. I don’t write about these things because I want to be a “social novelist.” I do it because I can’t ignore them as a person.

—Jonathan Franzen (from an interview in boundary2)

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