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

Authors

  • Maria Lúcia Barbosa Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.9.16.140-149

Keywords:

Otherness, Shoah, David Grossman

Abstract

David Grossman, from the lists and enumerations, especially of names to symbolize the contact with the “other”, let glimpse in Ver: Amor, an attempt to contact with otherness. Although not deconstruct the concept of identity, the writer puts in jeopardy the process of designing a full identity, assigning it a principle that, before being social and historical is, primarily, discursive and fragmentary.

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Author Biography

Maria Lúcia Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutoranda em Estudos Literários pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Literários da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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Published

2015-05-30

How to Cite

Barbosa, M. L. (2015). 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, 9(16), 140–149. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.9.16.140-149