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The author states: >'In an essay he published in The Guardian (which is by now removed from their website, following a massive Twitter campaign against the nov
by bogomipz 5y ago
The author states:
>'In an essay he published in The Guardian (which is by now removed from their website, following a massive Twitter campaign against the novelist mainly because of his opinion on techno-consumerism), titled “What’s Wrong with the Modern World?”,...'
I'm having trouble believing The Guardian would remove an article by a well-known author because of a Twitter campaign. However it does in fact appear to no longer exist on their site at least as far as having google search guradian.com. It's here in case anyone is interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130915070641/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/13/jonathan-franzen-wrong-modern-world https://web.archive.org/web/20130915070641/http://www.thegua...
And for a critique from the same time. This Observer article had some amusing points:
https://observer.com/2013/10/bigmouth-strikes-again-what-in-the-modern-world-is-wrong-with-jonathan-franzen/ https://observer.com/2013/10/bigmouth-strikes-again-what-in-...