Post - 9/11 Novel : An Analysis of four novels dealing with the events of September 11th, 2001, birth of a new literary phenomenon

This BA thesis is concerned with the analysis of four literary works by Johnatan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), Don DeLillo (Falling Man), Ken Kalfus (A Disorder Peculiar To The Country) and John Updike (Terrorist). As the novels will have been thoroughly introduced, a set of common motifs will be analysed. The need for self-reflection of the American (western) society, the urge for understanding the enemy and the reasons for hatred. The psychological, social, political and economical changes contemporary America had and has to face. The last part of the thesis tries to find out whether there is a new phenomenon (Post-9/11 Novel) forming in the contemporary Anglo-American literature, what are its aspects, its history and its future, which works are the most significant ones