Trivia
Steaminess Rating
RAlthough The Corrections focuses on matters of the mind rather than the body, Franzen doesn't hesitate to write explicitly about sexual activity. While these scenes are used to develop characters...
Allusions
Literary and Philosophical ReferencesThorstein Veblen (2.199-204)Jean Baudrillard (2.271)Martin Heidegger (2.279, 284)Ludwig Wittgenstein (2.279)Henry Thoreau (2.284)William Shakespeare (2.284; thr...