MAGIC REALISM, TRAUMA AND POSTMEMORY IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S "EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED"
MAGIC REALISM, TRAUMA AND POSTMEMORY IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S "EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED"

Summary/Abstract: Grounded in literature by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie, Magic Realism is a literary genre of contradictions and paradoxes, in which two incompatible worlds co-exist. Due to its paradoxical characteristics, Magic Realism can be in touch with representations of traumatic experiences and events as the Holocaust. This paper aims to analyze how the contemporary Jewish-American writer Jonathan Safran Foer uses Magic Realism in his novel entitled "Everything is Illuminated" to talk about the intergenerational aspects of the Holocaust trauma. For this, the focus will be on the concept of postmemory and how this concept functions in the novel, enabling the author to recreate the past of his ancestors using a blend of imagination and fiction, of the reality and the fantastic.

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