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Roman "Popravki", vyshedshiĭ v 2001 godu, prines sorokadvukhletnemu Dzhonatanu Franzenu vsemirnui͡u izvestnostʹ i postavil ego v odin ri͡ad s klassikami amerikanskoĭ literatury. Kniga razoshlasʹ millionnymi tirazhami, poluchila Nat͡sionalʹnui͡u knizhnui͡u premii͡u SShA i byla perevedena na 35 i͡azykov. Istorii͡a semʹi so Srednego Zapada, rasskazannai͡a s ironieĭ i li͡ubovʹi͡u, okazalasʹ gluboko universalʹnoĭ. Cheta Lambertov i troe ikh vzroslykh deteĭ pokhozhi na li͡ubui͡u nastoi͡ashchui͡u semʹi͡u: oni li͡ubi͡at i nenavidi͡at drug druga, porti͡at i spasai͡ut drug drugu zhiznʹ - i nikto, vkli͡uchai͡a ikh samikh, ne mozhet pomeshatʹ im sobratʹsi͡a vmeste za rozhdestvenskim stolom, esli ėtogo khochet mama. Fonom dli͡a ėtoĭ vechnoĭ kollizii sluzhit Amerika 90-kh - s ee vneshnim blagopoluchiem i vnutrenneĭ trevogoĭ, v smutnom predchuvstvii peremen. Deĭstvie romana "Popravki" razvorachivaetsi͡a vo vremennom otrezke mezhdu seredinoĭ KhKh veka i kont͡som 90-kh, to zabegai͡a vpered, to vozvrashchai͡asʹ nazad. V t͡sentre romana - postepennyĭ razlad vnutri odnoĭ amerikanskoĭ semʹi. Lamberty - obychnai͡a amerikanskai͡a semʹi͡a, i imenno v ėtom zakli͡uchaetsi͡a glavnai͡a tragedii͡a knigi - obychnye li͡udi pochti vsegda gluboko neschastny. Otet͡s semeĭstva, Alʹbert, nekogda strogiĭ bli͡ustitelʹ dist͡sipliny, teperʹ barakhtaetsi͡a v dement͡sii, vyzvannoĭ boleznʹi͡u Parkinsona. Inid, ego vechno frustrirovannai͡a zhena, vsi͡u zhiznʹ nakhodit uteshenie v khozi͡aĭstve i stroit svoi͡u zhiznʹ vokrug ozhidanii͡a semeĭnykh prazdnikov. Ikh troe vzroslykh deteĭ, Gari, Chip i Deniz, stalkivai͡utsi͡a s problemami, ukhodi͡ashchimi korni͡ami daleko v proshloe. Sobytie, zai͡avlennoe s samogo nachala romana, - sovmestnyĭ rozhdestvenskiĭ uzhin - neumolimo priblizhaetsi͡a, i vmeste s nim nazrevaet oshchushchenie katastrofy. Semeĭnyĭ prazdnik, kak bomba s taĭmerom, gotov v li͡uboĭ moment vzorvatʹsi͡a tysi͡achʹi͡u detskikh obid i supruzheskikh nedomolvok. Vsi͡a nedoli͡ublennostʹ, nevnimanie, pechalʹ i odinochestvo vyryvai͡utsi͡a iz Lambertov, chtoby oborvatʹ ikh nepreryvnoe vzaimnoe muchenie. I v ėtom vzryve oni, vozmozhno, obretut svobodu i budushchee.

The novel "Corrections", published in 2001, brought forty-two-year-old Jonathan Franzen worldwide fame and put him on a par with the classics of American literature. The book has sold millions of copies, won the US National Book Award, and has been translated into 35 languages. The story of a family from the Midwest, told with irony and love, turned out to be deeply universal. The Lamberts and their three adult children are like any real family: they love and hate each other, spoil and save each other's lives - and no one, including themselves, can stop them from getting together at the Christmas table if their mother wants it. The backdrop for this eternal collision is the America of the 90s, with its external well-being and inner anxiety, in a vague premonition of change. The action of the novel “Corrections” takes place in the time interval between the middle of the twentieth century and the end of the 90s, sometimes running ahead, then going back. The novel focuses on the gradual breakdown within an American family. The Lamberts are an ordinary American family, and this is the main tragedy of the book – ordinary people are almost always deeply unhappy. The father of the family, Albert, once a strict disciplinarian, is now wallowing in dementia caused by Parkinson's disease. Enid, his eternally frustrated wife, finds solace in the household all her life and builds her life around waiting for family holidays. Their three adult children, Gary, Chip, and Denise, face challenges that go back a long way. The event announced from the very beginning of the novel – a Christmas dinner together – is inexorably approaching, and with it a sense of disaster is brewing. A family holiday is like a bomb with a timer, ready to explode at any moment with a thousand childish insults and marital innuendos. All the dislike, inattention, sadness and loneliness burst out of the Lamberts to end their continuous mutual torment. And in this explosion, they may find freedom and a future.