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...Naomi Mandel This essay examines the role of fact and the injunction of fidelity to it in fiction about violent historical events. Taking as its starting point Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel, Everything Is Illuminated (set in the wake of the Holocaust), and his 2005 novel, Extremely Loud...

... in these studies—such as Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World (2004), Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005), Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2006), John Updike's Terrorist (2006), and Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007)—she can...

... of “enthrallment”—a passive succumbing to Remainder 's “static, abstracted prison of correspondence” (257)—hangs over the novel until its final pages, when a moment of unexpected and unsynchronized laughter breaks McCarthy's spell. Finally, a concluding chapter on Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud...

... of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September.” Harper's Dec. 2001 : 33 – 40 . Foer Jonathan Safran . Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close . New York : Houghton Mifflin , 2005 . Gray Richard . “Open Doors, Closed Minds: American Prose Writing at a Time...

... in the Novels of Jonathan Saf- ran Foer,” frontally articulates a case that, with varying degrees of specificity, is common to several other pieces in this issue: that a consideration of the status of the work as fiction must be central to any discussion of its “ethical” significance. Mandel addresses...

... Leaving the Atocha Station (2011). A broader web would extend to Zora Neale Hurston's twists of African American idioms around Caribbean tongues, the self-censorship in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (2000), and the stilted speech in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated...

... . den Dulk Allard . Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers, and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature . New York : Bloomsbury , 2015 . Emerson Lori . Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P...

...” (Duke University Press n. pag.). But the issue (including an essay by the present author) addressed only prestige fiction and art novels, by such consecrated figures as Michael Chabon, Vikram Chandra, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, David Lodge, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje...