![]() One of the three brothers at the center of it is this grossly overweight priest who can’t stop eating and doesn’t believe in God. But for me the actual experience of reading the book was page after page of comedy. ![]() It may be my favorite thing of yours yet, although I’m also a huge fan of "Fame." It seems like this is a novel about a genuinely serious philosophical question - why our life takes the particular path it does - and about the weirdness of being inside a life while it’s taking the turns it does. Jonathan Franzen: I want to start by saying I’m a big fan of this book. What follows is an edited transcript of a conversation he and I had by phone last month. In his collection of linked stories, "Fame" (published in 2010 in the U.S.), and even more in his new novel, "F," Daniel has become the go-to guy in Central Europe for engagement with the weirdness of the postmodern world we inhabit. He soon became a good friend (later also a collaborator on a translation project of mine), and it's been a pleasure, over the past nine years, to see him further blossom as a storyteller. ![]() He was ridiculously young, ridiculously well read for being so young, and ridiculously nice. ![]() I met Daniel Kehlmann in Vienna in 2005, on the night before German sales of his novel "Measuring the World" went ballistic. ![]()
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