![]() ![]() For instance, Lang summarizes the novel with three phrases: “history, a wary critical community, and a contemporary audience longing for an imaginative connection between themselves and the historical event” (2009: 43). ![]() Krauss creates a fictional world intertwining the history and present in the novel A great number of critics deals with the novel. The protagonist of novel, Leo Gursky living in America is an old man leaving his homeland and girlfriend because of Nazis and writing three novels which stuck between reality and fantasy according to his lover. For instance, the synchronistic narration blurs the readers mind by hesitating whether it is fiction or reality. Krauss uses postmodern characteristics in her novel. ![]() Coalesced with history, the characters are inspired from the real people and incidences. All characters directly or indirectly possess the marks of history, which is very crucial issue among Jewish writers. Her successful novel, The History of Love deals with Jewish characters exposed to the Holocaust during the World War II. Nicole Krauss, a distinctive Jewish American writer in modern literature, concerns about alienation, isolation, and emigration in Jewish society. ![]()
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