My Father's Brain, by Jonathan Franzen

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Neuronovels’ treatment of memory provides a major example of the tension between the cerebralizing of selfhood and the desire to maintain what Jonathan Franzen (2002, 19), in a memoir on his father’s decline with Alzheimer’s, characterized as “the more soul-like aspects of the self.”


Vidal, Fernando and Ortega, Francisco. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Forms of Living)....

Read Franzen's story, My Father's Brain, originally published on The New Yorker on September 10, 2001:My Father's Brain (PDF)
Jonathan Franzen, American novelist. Photograph by David Shankbone.

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