My Father's Brain, by Jonathan Franzen

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.”

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To find out more about Jonathan Franzen, go back to September 15, 2001, on this same timeline!