Laughter in Sadness: Etgar Keret’s “Autocorrect” - Chicago Review of Books

Laughter in Sadness: Etgar Keret’s “Autocorrect” - Chicago Review of Books

The late literary critic Harold Bloom remarked that compared to any century prior, many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and after were atheist or agnostic in bent. One can say, in turn, that this bent is a general trend of Western society as a whole, not a trait particular to writers. The causes are many; perhaps the most notable cause was a loss of faith in rationalism, a loss brought about through cultural forces including the…