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more in the
realm of comic
burlesque than
travelogue.
The supposed-
ly crack transla-
tor, a sincere
young man
exactly Foer's
age, speaks hilar-
ious fractured
English, as if he
had misinter-
preted every sin-
gle definition in
an out-of-date
Russian-English
dictionary.
"All of my
friends dub me
Alex," he
explains,
"because that is
a more flaccid-
to-utter version
of my legal
name."
"The complete absence I
Alex's half-blind, nar-
Twenty-fi ye-year-old
found in the Ukraine gave my
coleptic grandfather —
Jonathan Safran
imagination total freedom,"
who won't go anywhere
Foer, usin g fantasy,
Foer said in an interview with
symbolism and word without his dementedly
his publishers, Houghton
frisky seeing-eye dog
play, sho w s the
Mifflin Co., which anted up
(named Sammy Davis
influence of Philip
roughly half a million dollars
Jr.)
— is the driver.
Roth, I.B. Singer and
to acquire Everything Is
Not only can't the
Vladimir Nabokov,
Illuminated. (Translation deals
tour guides and the
among ot hers.
for languages ranging from
author speak intelligi-
Finnish to Catalan are in the
bly to each other. Alex
works.)
and his grandfather speak a different
Foer said he found himself wrestling
dialect from that common to the
with the age-old problem of an
region where Trachimbrod once
author's responsibilities to "the truth"
.allegedly existed.
of a story: "Can historical accuracy be
You can't help but ask, "Can this
replaced with imaginative accuracy?
trip be salvaged?"
The eye with the mind's eye?" he asks.
The answer depends on your defini-
tion of success. From the vantage
point of Jewish history, the journey is
An Innocent Abroad
wrenching: a story whose tragic end
Foer's answer is an amalgam of social
we know — or think we know —
commentary, pathos and broad
from the start.
humor, crammed into 276 tightly
Indeed, the suspense lies in what we
packed pages.
can't even imagine, as Foer gradually
In Everything Is Illuminated, the fic-
reveals interlocking hidden family his-
tional Foer, a greenhorn in the coun-
tories that, by novel's end, we're still
try of his forebears, innocently enlists
not sure we've untangled.
the .aid of an Odessa-based outfit
From a literary perspective, Foer
called Heritage Tours, which caters to
takes us on a wild and wondrous ride
American Jews who wish to visit their
through a multitude of literary styles,
ancestral villages in Poland and
high and low, from magical realism to
Ukraine.
Borscht Belt slapstick to a sophisticat-
Alas for the naive American, the
ed self-reflexive post-modernism.
tour company's expertise appears to lie
As if that's not dazzling enough, his
use of fantasy, symbolism and word
Diane Cole is the author of the memoir play show the influence of Philip
After Great Pain: A New Lift Emerges
Roth, I.B. Singer and Vladimir
(Winedale Publishing) and book editor
Nabokov, among others.
of the health magazine In Touch.
Clearly, Foer has read — and read