Moreover, he once claimed that he, as a New Yorker, found it impossible to not write about it as he felt it was his patriotic duty. One thing that is very important to state in the beginning of this post is that Foer’s personal emotional trauma was the driving force that made him write the novel as writing has always been a way for authors to cope with tragedy. It was 4 years after the terrible tragedy that occurred on September 11th, 2001 in New York. Jonathan Safran Foer wrote his second novel ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ in 2005 when he was 28 years old. It is more important now than ever to remind ourselves what really matters, and the best way to do it is through art, especially if that art is based on real events. We live in scary times when terrorist attacks, man-made disasters and revolutions occur one after another, and governments are actively allowing their citizens to be harmed & killed. It could be argued that the terms “postmodernism” and “tragedy” lie uneasily beside each other. It’s a book, a film and a jumping-off point for thinking for Inna Oganeisan – this blog post was first published in autumn 2016 here.
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