![]() ![]() The novel dealt with the Holocaust in a daringly funny and technically innovative way.1 While the critics cheered unanimously, many also wondered, somewhat fearfully, where Foer could possibly go with a second novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() PHILOMELA REVISITED: TRAUMATIC ICONICITY IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'S EXTREMELYLOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE Philippe Codde Ghent University Art makes up, what fortune has deny'd -Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VI When the Jewish American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer published his sensational debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated (2002), at the age of 25, it met with rave reviews, instantly casting its author as one of the great hopes for the future of American letters the New York Times waxed ecstatic and celebrated this work of "such brilliance and such brio" with two reviews in two weeks' time. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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