Premium Content Alex’s Sous Rature: The Understanded (strikethrough) Understood Mistake in “Everything is Illuminated”
By Britt C Zeldenrust - January 26, 2009
Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything is Illuminated (underline) is a playful celebration of postmodern eclecticism, piecing together the stylistic conventions and devices of modernity, as Jean Baudrilliard claimed, “…all that are left are pieces. All that remains to be done is to play with the pieces. Playing with the pieces – that is…
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