Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
This article compares Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by American author Jonathan Safran Foer to De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] (2004) by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Both novels contribute to ongoing discussions about Holocaust representation in the face of a generation temporally and spat...
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| Résumé: | This article compares Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by American author Jonathan Safran Foer to De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] (2004) by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Both novels contribute to ongoing discussions about Holocaust representation in the face of a generation temporally and spatially removed from the historical events. Ultimately, by blurring temporalities, focusing on what families inherit, and using humor these novels emphasize human agency in atrocity and the impossibilities of reconciliation by highlighting the capacity humans have for hurting one another and the limits of forgiveness. |
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