What’s up with us and the moon? Having ignored it for years, nay, centuries, keeping our eyes firmly to the ground, we have recently begun looking for it everywhere and anywhere. Obsessively, desperately almost. It is almost as if we suddenly grew worried that it might no longer be there. That we were afraid that …
In literary reviews ‘Everything is illuminated’ by Jonathan Safran Foer is often praised for its richness in tone and genre. It is both ironic and serious and it shows multiple elements from different genres: it is a Bildungsroman, a magical realistic story, the story of a road trip, the story between friends, a letter …
Foer’s novel ‘Everything is illuminated’ can easily be seen as your typical postmodern novel. It consists of three text forms: the narrative itself, a one-sided letter correspondence, and a kind of magical realistic narrative that is the product of a character called Jonathan Safran Foer. Also, the main narrative is constantly altered by information you …
David Shields’ Reality Hunger is subtitled “A Manifesto.” The whole title is: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. When was the last time you saw that sitting on a bookshelf–that word, “manifesto”? When was the last time you wrote one, or wished somebody else would, or waved one in somebody’s face and said, “Look, here’s how it’s …
In Ian McEwan`s Atonement fiction is as ambiguously portrayed as in Kennedy`s “Original Bliss”. But McEwan goes further. He not only portrays the two-faced nature of fiction, he also strongly accentuates its aesthetic potential as well as showing how fiction functions as an instrument of inadequacy. Briony – a thirteen-year-old girl – is the protagonist …
In A.L. Kennedy`s short story “Original Bliss” fiction is introduced as a powerful instrument that is able to stabilize situations, relationships and identities but also possesses a destructive and even perverse element. How fiction is treated here is one of those indicators asserting that what is so typical about postmodernism is questioned or simply …
