Jonathan Franzen on Franz Kafka, 'My Brilliant Friend,' and the Book That Helped Him Through a Breakup

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Jonathan Franzen on Franz Kafka, 'My Brilliant Friend,' and the Book That Helped Him Through a Breakup
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The Pulitzer finalist and Crossroads author takes our literary survey.

, is my favorite of the seven, and, to the extent that any book can shape a worldview, three aspects ofshaped mine. 1. The book posits that goodness is real and evil is real, and that the difference matters, which is quite a revelation for a 10-year-old reader. 2. The story is set many centuries after, and the English children returning to Narnia encounter a once-familiar world that has fallen into ruin even as they themselves have barely aged.

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