While Brauner's primary goal is to juxtapose the reviews of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close with the reviews of Roth's The Plot Against America, he defends Foer's own argument that "expectations of realism were misplaced" in relation to Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (189). In his recent book on Philip Roth, David Brauner has offered an overview of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close's critical reception, focusing especially on the problematic characterization of Foer's protagonist as young and naive, wandering around a dangerous city alone, and seeming a little more precocious than some reviewers find believable. Oskar's adventures take him on a literal and psychological journey in dealing with the traumatic loss of his father. The novel follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell on a quest to discover the meaning behind a small key left in an envelope labeled "Black" by his father who has died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, was released to overwhelming expectation, anticipating both its failure and its success.
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