The Shoah in a fictional novel calls into question some of the boundaries between the literary and the fictional. This article analyzes the novel Tudo se ilumina, by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005, checking the use of narrative features, such as list and the . Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, v. 9, n. 16, p. 140–149, 2015. DOI: 10.17851/1982-3053.9.16.140-149. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14261. Acesso em: 17 feb. 2026.