![]() ![]() ![]() Foer experiments with forms throughout his work: his novel Tree of Codes, is a cross between a story and a sculpture: he removed letters and words from Polish author Bruno Schulz’s book The Street of Crocodiles to create a new story. His third book, Eating Animals, is a nonfiction treatise about factory farming and slaughterhouses in which he explores his own vegetarianism. ![]() Since Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Foer has written in a wide variety of genres. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is Foer’s second novel, and he expands upon his method of braided storylines by adding visual materials and complex narration. ![]() Foer incorporated this journey into his thesis from Princeton to write his first novel, Everything is Illuminated, which weaves historical fiction with autobiography in two parallel but interconnected plots. After graduating from Princeton, Foer traveled to Ukraine to research his family’s roots. Jonathan Safran Foer comes from an intellectual, Jewish family his mother’s parents were Holocaust survivors. ![]()
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