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Everything is Illuminated Critics Consensus Although it excises much from its famously dense source material, Everything is Illuminated is a quirky, ambitious debut film from Liev Visit our Web site: blogger.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Foer, Jonathan Safran, date. Everything is illuminated: a novel / Jonathan • Everything is Illuminated consists of two autobiographical narratives; one, of the fictionalized history of Trochenbrod (changed to Trachimbrod in the book), where his mother was born, and Download PDF Everything Is Illuminated book full free. Everything Is Illuminated available for download and read online in other formats. Acces PDF Everything Is Illuminated  · Press Release Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer • Praise for Everything Is Illuminated • About the Author • A Conversation with Jonathan Safran ... read more

What was the image that pulled me in after it? What was it that I loved? And then I recognized it. So simple. We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered — our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. The chanting was interrupted by a pounding at the door. Two men in black hats limped in before any of the congregants had time to get up. hollered the taller of the two. echoed the short and squat one. Shanda said. IS YANKEL PRESENT? hollered the taller of the two, as if in response to her request. YEAH, IS YANKEL PRESENT? echoed the short, squat one. I am here, Yankel said, rising from his pillow. He assumed the Well-Regarded Rabbi was requesting his financial services, as had happened so many times in the past, piety being as expensive as it was those days. What can I do for you? YOU WILL BE THE FATHER OF THE BABY FROM THE RIVER!

hollered the taller. YOU WILL BE THE FATHER! Didl said, closing Volume IV of The Book of Recurrent Dreams, which released a cloud of dust as the covers clapped. This is most excellent! Yankel will be the father! Mazel tov! the congregants began to sing. Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he 41 felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive — to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling — to be not being, not to be. Slouchers congratulated him, failing to notice as they patted him on the back that he was crying. Thank you, he said, and said again, without once wondering just whom he was thanking.

Thank you so much. He had been given a baby, and I a great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Here we go, he said, up the front step. Here we are. This is your door. And here, this is your doorknob I am opening. And here, this is where we put the shoes when we come in. And here is where we hang the jackets. He spoke to her as if she could understand him, never in a high pitch or in monosyllables, and never in nonsense words. This is milk that I am feeding you. It comes from Mordechai the milkman, whom you will meet one day. This is my hand that is petting your face. Some people are left-handed and some are right-handed. This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against something, sometimes other lips, sometimes a cheek, sometimes something else.

It depends. This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive. He left the oven door open, and would sit for hours and watch her, as one might watch a loaf of bread rise. He watched her chest rise and fall in rapid succession as her fingers made fists and released, and her eyes squinted for no apparent reason. Could she be dreaming? he wondered. And if so, what would a baby dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife. When he pulled her out to feed or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint.

time of dyed hands is finally over! mouse will 43 hang! if found, free to keep. Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. He had also lost a wife, not to death but to another man. He had returned from an afternoon at the library to find a note covering the shalom! Lilla F fingered the soil around one of her daisies. Bitzl Bitzl stood by his kitchen window, pretending to scrub the counter clean. Shloim W peered through the upper bulb of one of the hourglasses with which he could no longer bring himself to part. It looked just like any other note she would leave him, like, Could you try to fix the broken knocker?

It was so strange to him that such a different kind of note — I had to do it for myself — could look exactly the same: trivial, mundane, nothing. Where were the dried teardrops? Where was the tremor in the script? But his wife was his first and only love, and it was the nature of those from the tiny shtetl to forgive their first and only loves, so he forced himself to understand, or pretend to understand. Without Yankel. She wanted to be without Yankel. He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cooking ingredients. Standing, with socks still on. In the grass of the yard of their new and immense house. He imagined her making noises she never made for him and feeling pleasures he could never provide because the bureaucrat was a man, and he was not a man. Does she suck his penis? And when she sucks his penis, because she must, what is he doing?

Is he pulling her hair back to watch? Is he touching her chest? Is he thinking of someone else? With the shtetl still watching — Lilla still fingering, Bitzl Bitzl still scrubbing, Shloim still pretending to measure time with sand — he folded the note into a teardrop shape, slid it into his lapel, and went inside. I should probably kill myself. So he tried to lose it. But it was always there. He tried to massage it out of his pocket while sitting on the bench in front of the fountain of the prostrate mermaid, but when he inserted his hand for his hanky, it was there. He hid it like a bookmark in one of the novels he most hated, but the note would appear several days later between the pages of one of the Western books that he alone in the shtetl read, one of the books that the note had now spoiled for him forever.

It kept returning to him. It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself. He had lost so many slips of paper over time, and keys, pens, shirts, 45 glasses, watches, silverware. He had lost a shoe, his favorite opal cufflinks the Sloucher fringes of his sleeves bloomed unruly , three years away from Trachimbrod, millions of ideas he intended to write down some of them wholly original, some of them deeply meaningful , his hair, his posture, two parents, two babies, a wife, a fortune in pocket change, more chances than could be counted. He had even lost a name: he was Safran before he fled the shtetl, Safran from birth to his first death.

Before the trial, Yankel-then-Safran was unconditionally admired. He was the president and treasurer and secretary and only member of the Committee for the Good and Fine Arts, and the founder, multiterm chairman, and only teacher of the School for Loftier Learning, which met in his house and whose classes were attended by Yankel himself. It was not unusual for a family to host a multicourse dinner in his name if not in his presence , or for one of the more wealthy community members to commission a traveling artist to paint a portrait of him.

And the portraits were always flattering. He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend. On the advice of his lawyer, Isaac M, who gestured quotation marks in the air with every syllable of every word he spoke, Yankel pleaded guilty to all charges of unfit practice, with the hope that it might lighten his punishment. And more than his license. He lost his good name, which is, as they say, the only thing worse than losing your good health. Passersby sneered at him or muttered under their breath names like scoundrel, cheat, cur, fucker. But along with the Garden-Variety Rabbi and Sofiowka, he was one of the vertices of the community — the invisible one — and with his shame came a sense of imbalance, a void.

He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others — the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all.

And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. After three years he returned to the shtetl — I am the final piece of proof that all citizens who leave eventually return — and lived a quiet life like a Sloucher fringe, sewn to the sleeve of Trachimbrod, forced to wear that horrible bead around his neck as a mark of his shame. He changed his name to Yankel, the name of the bureaucrat who ran away with his wife, and asked that no one ever call him Safran again although he thought he heard that name every now and then, muttered behind his back.

Many of his old clients returned to him, and while they refused to pay the rates of his heyday, he was nevertheless able to reestablish himself in the shtetl of his birth — as all who are exiled eventually try to do. When the black-hatted men gave him the baby, he felt that he too was only a baby, with a chance to live without shame, without need of consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy. He named her Brod, after the river of her curious birth, and gave her a string necklace of her own, with a tiny abacus bead 47 of her own, so she would never feel out of place in what would be her family. As my great-great-great-great-great-grandmother grew, she remembered, of course, nothing, and was told nothing. It was her mother who gave her those beautiful big ears. Was it love at first sight, Yankel? I loved your mother even before seeing her — it was her smell! Tell me about what she looked like again. She looked like you.

She was beautiful, with those mismatched eyes, like you. One blue, one brown, like yours. She had your strong cheekbones and also your soft skin. What was her favorite book? Genesis, of course. Did she believe in God? She would never tell me. How long were her fingers? This long. And her legs? Like this. Tell me again about how she would blow on your face before she kissed you. Was she funny? Funnier than me? She was the funniest person in the world. Exactly like you. She was beautiful? It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He felt that he had lost her. He had lost her. At night he would reread the letters that she had never written him. Do you know that? Do you know how silly you are? Things are wonderful here. I really miss you. Every moment of every day I think about your absence, and it almost kills me. It sounds like something you might do, I know. It almost worked. He had repeated the details so many times that it was nearly impossible to distinguish them from the facts.

But the real note kept returning to him, and that, he was sure, was what kept him from that most simple and impossible thing: happiness. I had to do it for myself. Brod discovered it one day when she was only a few years old. It had found its way into her right pocket, as if the note had a mind of its own, as if those seven scribbled words were capable of wanting to inflict reality. She either sensed the immense importance of it or deemed it entirely unimportant, because she never mentioned it to Yankel, but put it on his bedside table, where he would find it that night after rereading another letter that was not from her mother, not from his wife.

A VOTE! the Well-Regarded Rabbi proclaimed. WE SHALL TAKE IT TO A VOTE. By morning it was official: resting twenty-three kilometers southeast of Lvov, four north of Kolki, 50 and straddling the Polish-Ukrainian border like a twig alighted on a fence was the shtetl of Sofiowka. The new name was, much to the dismay of those who had to bear it, official and irrevocable. It would be with the shtetl until its death. Of course, no one in Sofiowka called it Sofiowka. Until it had such a disagreeable official name, no one felt the need to call it anything. Some even called the shtetl Not-Sofiowka, and would continue to even after a new name was chosen. The Well-Regarded Rabbi called for another vote. While no one was quite sure what was meant by purposes — Did we have purposes before?

What, exactly, is my purpose among our purposes? Figuring that the fiasco had gone on long enough, he decided, reasoning that this is what God would do in such a situation, to pick a slip of paper randomly from the box and name the shtetl whatever it should say. He nodded as he read what had become familiar script. YANKEL HAS WON AGAIN, he said. As for me, I still have two years of studies among the remnants. I do not know what I will perform after that. Many of the things you informed me in July are still momentous to me, like what you uttered about searching for dreams, and how if you have a good and meaningful dream you are oblongated to search for it. This may be cinchier for you, I must say. I did not yearn to mention this, but I will. Soon I will possess enough currency to purchase a plane voucher to America. Father does not know this. He thinks I disseminate everything I possess at famous discotheques, but as proxy for I often go to the beach and roost for many hours, so I do not have to disseminate currency.

When I roost at the beach I think about how lucky you are. He made his arm broken the day yore, because he fell again, this time from a fence he was hiking on, if you can believe it. We all tried very inflexibly to make him a happy person, and Mother prepared a premium cake that had many ceilings, and we even had a small festival. Grandfather was present, of course. He inquired how you are, and I told him that you would be reverting to university in September, which is now. He wanted for me to inquire if it would be a possible thing for you to post another reproduction of the photograph of Augustine. He said that he would present you currency for any ex- 52 penses. I am very distressed about him, as I informed you in the last letter.

His health is being defeated. He does not possess the energy to get spleened often, and is usually in silence. In truth, I would favor it if he yelled at me, and even if he punched me. Father purchased a new bicycle for Little Igor for his birthday, which is a superior present, because I know Father does not possess enough currency for presents such as bicycles. Tell me if it is awesome. Please, be truthful. I will not be angry if you tell me that it is not awesome. I resolved not to go anywhere famous last night. Instead I roosted on the beach. But I was not in my normal solitude, because I took the photograph of Augustine with me.

I must confess to you that I examine it very recurrently, and persevere to think about what you said about falling in love with her. She is beautiful. You are correct. Enough of my miniature talking. I am making you a very boring person. I will now speak about the business of the story. I perceived that you were not as appeased by the second division. I eat another slice for this. But your corrections were so easy. It is necessary. I know that you asked me not to alter the mistakes because they sound humorous, and humorous is the only truthful way to tell a sad story, but I think I will alter them. Please do not hate me. I did fashion all of the other corrections you commanded. I inserted what you ordered me to in the part about when I first encountered you. Do you in truth think that we are comparable? I was unable to ignore observing that you again posted me currency. But I parrot what I uttered before: if you are not appeased by what I post to you, and would like to have your currency posted back, I will post it back immediately.

I could not feel proud in any other manner. I toiled very hard on this next section. It was the most rigid yet. I attempted to guess some of the things you would have me alter, and I altered them myself. I am certain that you will inform me when I have traveled too far. Concerned about your writing, you sent me many pages, but I must tell you that I read every one of them. The Book of Recurrent Dreams was a very beautiful thing, and I must say that the dream that we are our fathers made me melancholy. This is what you intended, yes? Of course I am not Father, so perhaps I am the rare bird to your novel. When I look in the reflection, what I view is not Father, but the negative of Father. He is a good man, yes? Why do you think he made to swindle that man so many years ago? Perhaps he needed the currency very severely. I know what this is like, although I would never swindle any person. I found it stimulating that you made another lottery, this time to dub the shtetl.

It made me think about what I would dub Odessa if I was given the power. I think that I might dub it Alex, because then everyone would know that I am Alex, and that the name of the city is Alex, so I must be a very premium person. I also might name it Little Igor, because people would think that my brother is a premium person, which he is, but it would be good for people to think so. It is a queer thing how I wish everything for my brother that I wish for myself, only more rigidly. Perhaps I would name it Trachimbrod, because then Trachimbrod could exist, and also, everyone here would purchase your book, and you could become famous.

I am regretted to end this letter. It is as proximal a thing as we have to talking. I hope you are appeased by the third division, and as always, I ask for 54 your forgiveness. I attempted to be truthful and beautiful, as you told me to. Oh, yes. There is one additional item. I did not amputate Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior from the story, even though you counseled that I should amputate her. Let us view her evolution and then resolve. I write that she was trying because the hero was not being sociable. She was now jumping up and also down on his face. I reasoned that she was in love with the hero. It makes her sexually stimulated. This is a good sign. It signifies that she will not bite. Pending all of this, Grandfather was still returning from his repose. She sat. On the hero. In the sixty-nine position. Sit on your side of the back seat! Get off the hero!

A befitting not-truth. It smells like someone died in this car. What is that? I do not cogitate that there was a person in the car that was surprised when we became lost amid the Lvov train station and the superway to Lutsk. He will not understand. But I will mention that she was being a good bitch, because she punched her head against only her window, and when you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side. Also, she was not farting very much. I hate Lutsk. I hate the Jew in the back seat of this car that I hate.

I am supposed to be retarded. And what the hell is that smell? I will kill us. If you want to know why, it is because Grandfather is Grandfather first and a driver second. He made us lost often and became on his nerves. I had to translate his anger into useful information for the hero. Those are where Communist statues used to be. I was humiliated to the maximum. Her name is Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior. He found the Jewish God. A Jew? This is not a possible thing! Come on, girl! She gets terrible farting in the car because it has nor shock absorbers nor struts, but if we roll down 58 the window she will jump out, and we need her because she is the Seeing Eye bitch for our blind driver, who is also my grandfather.

What do you not understand? He excavated several items from his side bag. First he exhibited me a photograph. It was yellow and folded and had many pieces of fixative affixing it together. The photograph was made. He escaped the Nazi raid on Trachimbrod. Everyone else was killed. He lost a wife and a baby. And how will we find this family? She would be the only one still alive. He moved his finger along the face of the girl in the photograph as he mentioned her. She was standing down and right to his grandfather in the picture. A man who I am certain was her father was next to her, and a woman who I am certain was her mother was behind her.

Her parents appeared very Russian, but she did not. She appeared American. She was a youthful girl, perhaps fifteen. But it is possible that she had more age. I looked at the girl for many minutes. She was so so beautiful. Her hair was brown, and rested only on her shoulders. Her eyes appeared sad, and full of intelligence. A shtetl is like a village. Like schmuck. Everything I can think of is basically schmuck. The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jews have four hundred for schmuck. We will search for Augustine, who you think saved your grandfather from the Nazis. I perceived that this appeased the hero, but I did not say it to appease him. I said it because it was faithful. Maybe not. It is queer that he remarks only her. Do you think he loved her? We must think alike. He was eighteen, and she was, what, 60 about fifteen? He had just lost a wife and daughter when the Nazis raided his shtetl. It could be that he used this for scrap paper.

Just something to write on. It seems so improbable that he could have loved her. The distance. And his words on the back. He married your present grandmother, so something must have been replaced. For all I know she is. Maybe he had children with her. She has her reasons. If she had wanted to tell us anything about it, she would have. Her shtetl, Kolki, is only a few kilometers from Trachimbrod. But all of her family was killed, everyone, mother, father, sisters, grandparents. She was 61 young, and left her family behind. The Ukrainians, back then, were terrible to the Jews. They were almost as bad as the Nazis.

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