MAGIC REALISM, IDENTITY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
MAGIC REALISM, IDENTITY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

Summary/Abstract: Magic Realism is a topic widely discussed and debated among critics all over the world. This term and this literary genre, from its very beginning, seemed to have created some difficulties in its usage and understanding. Many writers have chosen to use Magic Realism and to incorporate the magical into the everyday reality, writers like Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie or Laura Esquivel. In addition, there is an increased interest in literature and literary criticism for topics related to race and ethnicity and there is a considerable growth in the writings produced especially by American writers coming from different ethnic backgrounds. However, there seems to be a lower interest and amount of literary criticism given to those American ethnic writers who have chosen Magic Realism in their novels. These American ethnic writers seem to be concerned with specific literary themes, among which there is the theme of identity. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the Magic Realism and the theme of identity in the novel Everything is Illuminated written by the Jewish-American writer Jonathan Safran Foer.

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