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Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, and John Kennedy Toole – the “neo-modern” triad of the American literature.
JSF is a Princeton educat...ed philosopher and writer (creative writing with J. C. Oates). He has a stunningly advanced approach of writing which combines the fiber of the traditional Jewish logos with a novel treatment of semiotics placing him in the frontline of the contemporary narrative creation. Besides the dramatic intensity of his prose, JSF is challenging the reader with a material treatment of the text that is perfectly matching the turmoil of his literary vision. JSF “re-textualises” the literature and restores the primal position of the text in a pure exercise of cabbalistic philosophy that consolidates the meaning both in the ideas and in the scripture. A new philosophy of composition stems out of this where poetry is no longer supported by text, but is the text itself as well, with alternate meanings and keys to deeper and far reaching understandings that exceed the common interpretation. His first novel “Everything Is Illuminated” (please refer to the original “enluminure”) heralds his undertakings further developed in the almost unbearable “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” in my opinion the first “mapped” book ever. In fiction, he has published lately “Tree of Codes” – a challenge of literary virtuosity: the book that is written as you read it, and a real sapiential experience of the Book of all books. He is also the editor of a fascinating edition of the Haggadah newly translated by Nathan Englander.
The movies made after “Everything is Illuminated” and “Extremely Loud…” are a totally different experience.
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(2010)
Tree of Codes
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Eating Animals
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning
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Everything Is Illuminated
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- Legal name: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Birthdate: February 21, 1977 (age 35)
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://www.jonathansafranfoer.com/
- Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Non-Fiction
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Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009, he published a work of nonfiction entitled Eating Animals.
In June 2004, Safran Foer married the novelist Nicole Krauss. They live in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, and have two children.
Awards
In 2000, Safran Foer was awarded the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize, in 2003 he won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and in 2007 he was included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2. In Spring 2007, Foer stayed at the American Academy in Berlin as a Holtzbrinck Fellow.
Novels
* Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Non-fiction books
* Eating Animals (2009)
Short stories
* "The Very Rigid Search" (excerpted from Everything Is Illuminated) (The New Yorker, June 18, 2001)
* "If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe" (included in A Convergence of Birds)
* "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" (The New Yorker, June 10, 2002)
* "The Sixth Borough" (became part of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; also featured in the collection "Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creature from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out.")
* "Cravings"
* "About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition" (The Guardian, December 2, 2002)
* "Room After Room" (included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2,"Granta 97" published in 2007)
* "Rhoda" (published in The Book of Other People, 2008)
* "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" (The New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010)
Other
* "Imagining Giovanni's Gift", Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 20 (Spring 2000)
* "The Proximity of Brad to Bradford: A Brief Introduction to the Lifework of Bradford Morrow", Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 20 (Spring 2000)
* A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell (2001), Editor and contributor
* Sock Monkeys: 200 Out of 1,863 (2002), Contributor: "Il Fait Plus Froid Ailleurs"
* Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (2003), Contributor: "The Very Rigid Search"
* The Future Dictionary of America (2004), Co-editor, with Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss, and Eli Horowitz
* The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (2004), Introduction.
* Masters of American Comics edited by John Carlin (2005), Contributor: "Breakdownable"
* The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (2005), collects "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" and an excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
* "A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah", The New York Times (December 22, 2005) Op-ed piece
* Joe, photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, designed by Takaaki Matsumoto (2006) Text by Foer
* "My Life as a Dog", The New York Times (November 27, 2006) Op-ed piece
* The Diary of Petr Ginz, edited by Chava Pressburger (2007), Contributor: "What We Say We Are"
* The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, by Bruno Schultz (Penguin Classics Edition 2008), Forward
* "La Vie on Pose", Vogue December 2008
* Ron Arad: No Discipline (MoMA 2009), Contributor: "You Look Up Escape Artist"
In June 2004, Safran Foer married the novelist Nicole Krauss. They live in Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, and have two children.
Awards
In 2000, Safran Foer was awarded the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize, in 2003 he won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and in 2007 he was included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2. In Spring 2007, Foer stayed at the American Academy in Berlin as a Holtzbrinck Fellow.
Novels
* Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Non-fiction books
* Eating Animals (2009)
Short stories
* "The Very Rigid Search" (excerpted from Everything Is Illuminated) (The New Yorker, June 18, 2001)
* "If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe" (included in A Convergence of Birds)
* "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" (The New Yorker, June 10, 2002)
* "The Sixth Borough" (became part of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; also featured in the collection "Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creature from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out.")
* "Cravings"
* "About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition" (The Guardian, December 2, 2002)
* "Room After Room" (included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2,"Granta 97" published in 2007)
* "Rhoda" (published in The Book of Other People, 2008)
* "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" (The New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010)
Other
* "Imagining Giovanni's Gift", Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 20 (Spring 2000)
* "The Proximity of Brad to Bradford: A Brief Introduction to the Lifework of Bradford Morrow", Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 20 (Spring 2000)
* A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell (2001), Editor and contributor
* Sock Monkeys: 200 Out of 1,863 (2002), Contributor: "Il Fait Plus Froid Ailleurs"
* Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (2003), Contributor: "The Very Rigid Search"
* The Future Dictionary of America (2004), Co-editor, with Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss, and Eli Horowitz
* The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (2004), Introduction.
* Masters of American Comics edited by John Carlin (2005), Contributor: "Breakdownable"
* The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (2005), collects "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" and an excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
* "A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah", The New York Times (December 22, 2005) Op-ed piece
* Joe, photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, designed by Takaaki Matsumoto (2006) Text by Foer
* "My Life as a Dog", The New York Times (November 27, 2006) Op-ed piece
* The Diary of Petr Ginz, edited by Chava Pressburger (2007), Contributor: "What We Say We Are"
* The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, by Bruno Schultz (Penguin Classics Edition 2008), Forward
* "La Vie on Pose", Vogue December 2008
* Ron Arad: No Discipline (MoMA 2009), Contributor: "You Look Up Escape Artist"
