April 1996 Issue [Article] Perchance to dream Download PDF Adjust Share In the age of images, a reason to write novels by Jonathan Franzen, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags 20th century Authorship Books and reading Fiction Jonathan Franzen Social aspects United States More from Jonathan Franzen A Different Kind of Father By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the… The fall The basement war Adjust Share