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and also by Hannah Arendt, who
inquires about the Miscellany on
behalf of the Commission on
European Jewish Cultural
Reconstruction.
She learns shocking truths, which
prompt her to leave Windsor. When
she does, all of the Ivris are dis-
traught. "We were each in our own
way in love with her, and every heart
breaks in accordance with its own pri-
vate laws. "
Joseph goes on to become a noted
neuroanatomist, and Asa aids in his
work. Fifty years after that summer,
Joseph travels around the world
speaking about his best-selling book,
The Illuminated Soul — an esoteric
story in which the soul is personified
by a mysterious woman.
At most of his lectures, an elegant
red-headed woman appears as if out of
nowhere in the hack of the room, and
then disappears when he's finished.
Stollman explains that Eva's story is
a reinterpretation of the medieval leg-
end of the Wandering Jew.
"I wanted to take away the anti-
Semitic components of that story," he
says. Eva is more like Abraham, who
wanders and gains wisdom and
understanding, and also like the
Israelites, who wander in the desert en
route to freedom.
About beauty, the author agrees
with his character, who says that
beauty teaches and surprises us, that
it's independent of good and evil. "We
learn from it," he says.
Although Stollman has written a
novel of ideas, he says "what comes
first are the characters." The lives of
the people he writes about are
informed by ideas. "I use ideas to
understand their world."
After Eva became more real to him, he
traveled to Prague to do some research.
Hannah Arendt's appearance in the
novel is a fiction, but her work with
the Commission on European Jewish
Cultural Reconstruction is based on
historical fact.

Windsor Background

Like his previous award-winning
novel The Far Euphrates, The
Illuminated Soul is set in Stollman's
hometown of Windsor.
He speaks of childhood as a place
where we first encounter the world
and try to make sense of it. A lot of
writers go back to the emotional land-
scape of their childhood. But it's only
a starting point."
Stollman's father was an Orthodox
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