FilmClub: 28 de novembre a les 19 h a la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia.
BookClub: 29 de novembre a les 19 h a la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia.
Excerpt of a review in The Guardian:
In Everything Is Illuminated, a young American with the same name as the author travels to the Ukraine, carrying a photograph of the woman believed in the legends of the Safran Foer family to have saved his granddad from the Nazis. This sensitive quest is redirected as farce when Jonathan's guides in Odessa prove to be an ancient chauffeur, somewhat worryingly accompanied by a guide-dog, and the driver's grandson, Alex, a would-be translator whose ear for American is as reliable as his grandfather's eye for the road. A Jewish vegetarian, the American struggles in a country filled (as Safran Foer presents it) with meat-eating anti-semites.
Alex's imperfect English - in letters to Jonathan and sections of a novel based on the journey - form two of the book's three narrative strands. Don't try to read them at night while someone else is sleeping unless your relationship can survive frequent wakings by deranged laughter. The trick is that the translator, using a thesaurus to enrich his vocabulary, sees no distinction between common, demotic and poetic words. Or, as Alex puts it: "I fatigued the thesaurus you presented me, as you counselled me to, when my words appeared petite, or not befitting." Finding translation so "rigid", Alex "rotated" instead of "turned". The firm breasts of his fantasy woman are described as an "unmalleable bosom". The guide dog is a "Seeing Eye bitch". Hearing his little brother crying in his sleep, Alex tries to "counterfeit that I am reposing".
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The Film
Director- Liev Schreiber
Cast
- Eugene Hutz ... Alex
- Elijah Wood ... Jonathan Safran Foer
- Jonathan Safran Foer ... Leaf Blower
- Jana Hrabetova ... Jonathan's Grandmother
- Stephen Samudovsky ... Jonathan's Grandfather Safran
- Ljubomir Dezera ... Young Jonathan
- Oleksandr Choroshko ... Alexander Perchov, Father
- Gil Kazimirov ... Igor
- Zuzana Hodkova ... Alex's Mother
- Mikki & Mouse ... Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.
- Boris Leskin ... Grandfather
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The author has other books but we don't them in English at the Libraries of Catalonia. We have them in Spanish and Catalan, though.
The author has other books but we don't them in English at the Libraries of Catalonia. We have them in Spanish and Catalan, though.
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