Multiple voices in Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer

Abstract

The novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, was originally published in English in 2002 and Brazil with the title Tudo se ilumina in 2005. The narrative shows a contemporary form of fiction about the Shoah in which fiction and reality are mixed from the recreation of a search on a journey of the history of the writer's ancestors for a small shtetl in Ukraine. Marked by fragmentation, by the multiplicity of styles of expression and thought, the narrative presents is incomplete and polysemic form, which in the novel reaches its climax when the text part of configuration lists and entries.