Listening for the Lost Voices – the 3rd Generation after the Holocaust in the Face of Salvation

Abstract

The article tries to identify distinctive features for the current of writing of the 3^rd generation after the Holocaust on the basis of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything Is Illuminated that opens and establishes the basic features of his poetics. The experience of a loss, helplessness, panplagiarism and of searching for the meaning is manifested in various prose devices, ultimately leading through abductive meanders of reasoning to the affirmation of life.