{"id":27328,"date":"2012-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/freedom-by-jonathan-franzen\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:45:41","slug":"freedom-by-jonathan-franzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/freedom-by-jonathan-franzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En estas vacaciones que ya se acaban, me atragant\u00e9 con esta novela de muchas p\u00e1ginas, engatusada por las rese\u00f1as, el pr\u00f3ximo Hay Festival y un t\u00edtulo que promet\u00eda una visi\u00f3n maximalista. Pero Franzen alega no estar interesado en dicha visi\u00f3n a la que apuntan las grandes novelas, que intentan contarlo todo y cuyos m\u00e9todos considera obsoletos. Su golosina es, como le dijo a Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez en una entrevista publicada en El Pa\u00eds, habitar en el mundo \u00edntimo de las personas. Y aqu\u00ed, el escritor estadounidense es un maestro en enganchar al lector con los personajes.<\/p>\n<p>Son personajes ordinarios que viven \u201cpeque\u00f1as cosas\u201d, entre las cuales se cuentan sus pasiones, ilusiones, angustias, rabias, errores predecibles pero inevitables, intentos fallidos, fracasos exitosos y victorias p\u00edrricas. Las muchas contradicciones que describe el novelista en sus personajes son el plato fuerte en medio del cual parece decirnos que se hace lo que se puede. Tanto en la relaci\u00f3n con los padres, como en las decisiones al educar a los hijos, se cometen errores y toca vivir con ellos. Igual sucede con la claridad o turbiedad mental al desempe\u00f1ar un trabajo o componer una canci\u00f3n, al seguir o dar un consejo, al volver a empezar a vivir cuando pareciera que no val\u00eda la pena.<\/p>\n<p>A medida que avanza el libro, se aproxima el tiempo de resumir si se lograron las metas perseguidas por los protagonistas. Y nos damos cuenta de que cada historia se convierte en algo distinto a lo planeado. Cada objetivo ha tomado vida propia y no responde a lo que se desea, sino a lo que se ha podido. Esa distancia entre lo proyectado y lo que pasa en la realidad, se marca por muchas razones: porque verdaderamente no quieren hacer lo que hab\u00edan calculado con tanta vehemencia, porque son c\u00f3modos, ego\u00edstas, poco rigurosos y, en \u00faltimas, porque tambi\u00e9n existe el azar, los terceros, lo que se escapa del control. A pesar de que existe libertad para escoger, los resultados son una confusi\u00f3n general que desconcierta pero que refleja el alma de los protagonistas y a su vez el alma de su sociedad.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed, como quien no quiere la cosa, Franzen va pasando de los aciertos y los desaciertos de las vidas individuales de una familia clase media, a las incoherencias de la sociedad gringa de la primera d\u00e9cada del siglo XXI. Una colectividad consumista, belicista, competitiva y ego\u00edsta, pero tambi\u00e9n ecologista, dem\u00f3crata, respetuosa de las libertades. Es decir, como los protagonistas de Libertad, una sociedad contradictoria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa novela es la historia privada de las naciones\u201d dice el ep\u00edgrafe de Conversaci\u00f3n en la Catedral de Vargas Llosa, citando a Balzac. Y con esto, advierte que los ingleses conocen de su historia por Dickens y los franceses por el mismo Balzac. Quiz\u00e1s en el futuro las generaciones venideras, gracias a este retrato de Franzen, contar\u00e1n con una imagen de lo que acabaron siendo los gringos de los tiempos de la paranoia del terrorismo y la seguridad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against a backdrop of how the United States has seen itself after 9-11, Jonathan Franzen portrays in his latest novel, Freedom, the private life of an american family. 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