Word: foerã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...question of how art can interpret the enormous societal shifts of Sept. 11—taken up in literature by Ian McEwan’s “Saturday” and Jonathan Safran Foer??s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”—is now addressed in film by Sally Potter’s “Yes” (on general release in the U.S. on June...
...just about everything in his two books besides show what it’s like to be him. “Everything Is Illuminated,” for instance, takes the form of a correspondence between two writers—one is a Ukrainian translator, and the other is Foer??s namesake, who communicates only through historical tracts of magical realism about the Jewish village of Trachimbrod. Never do we get an “I” in Foer??s books, and when we do, it’s always in reference to someone else...
...require photographic illustrations, whole pages of blank space, disorienting experiments with typesetting, and a flipbook of a man falling from the burning World Trade Center. Although it’s an admittedly clichéd term, “Extremely Loud” is a multimedia experience, although to Foer??s credit, it’s not an offensively kitschy...
Beneath the frills, Foer says, lies an almost archetypal tale—one that draws less from postmodern literary theory and more from the traditional fable. Although the narrative foreground is colored and clouded over by Foer??s insistence on side-stories and his obsession with the past, it really is a pretty simple tale. Oskar searches the five boroughs of New York City for information about a mysterious key he has discovered in his father’s closet. Along the way, he makes some new friends, learns some lessons, and follows secret clues. Foer tells...
...York Times Book Review’s Walter Kim has confused Foer??s quaint simplicity with “tritenesses” [sic]. According to Kim, the avant-garde ornamentations cause readers “to ooh and aah over notions that used to make it groan.” But even though an audience less erudite than Kim might be wowed by Foer??s techniques, the author isn’t claiming to be on the cutting edge of anything...