Louisiana Literature

Jonathan Safran Foer: Novels Can Learn from Poetry

Louisiana Channel Season 1 Episode 24

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Meet American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, who reflects on the power of literature in general and poetry in particular. Foer argues that art always has a personal point of departure, where the artist confronts the world and rearranges it. 

Jonathan Safran Foer was interviewed by Synne Rifbjerg at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2012