5/29/2023 Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerRead NowMost critics have agreed that Alex's ambitiously bad English is the best thing about the novel. He is certainly busy fatiguing that thesaurus in an effort to remedy his deficiencies. My eyes are blue and resplendent." "My second tongue is not so premium." Alex is true to this sage counsel: "I am burdened to recite my good appearance. Without realising what semantic mischief it will do, Jonathan has given him a thesaurus and advised him to use it, "when my words appeared too petite, or not befitting". He will not just correct his language, he will improve it. He accompanies this American would-be author on a trip to find the village where Jonathan's grandfather once lived, and tries to pick up some tips on writing English. He wants to take advantage of his contact with a soi disant writer called Jonathan Safran Foer. Alex, the Ukrainian translator who narrates a large part of Everything Is Illuminated, would not agree. "I fatigued the thesaurus you presented me." The accepted wisdom is that aspiring writers should not artificially expand their vocabularies by looking up swanky words.
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