In 1940, Germany invaded France, forcing French citizens to submit to German authority. Another side of World War II that’s worth discussing in the context of the novel is the French Resistance.
To this day, the legacy of Fascism and the Holocaust remain the cause of tremendous trauma, guilt, and shame for Germany, and for Europe as a whole. (In the novel, Werner Pfennig is much praised for his piercing blue eyes and light blond hair.) In all, as many as 21 million people were killed in the Holocaust, including at least 6 million Jews. Germans in particular were taught to celebrate the racial ideal: the tall, blond, blue-eyed Aryan. Beginning in the late 1930s, Germany began isolating Jews, Romani people, disabled people, and homosexuals, first forcing them to wear identification at all times, then forcing them to live in designated areas, and finally, in 1942, sending them to labor camps to be murdered. The most infamous example of Fascist authoritarianism remains the Holocaust. During this period, Italy and Germany ruled their own people with an iron fist. Between 19, Europe was locked in a long and brutal war between the Axis Powers-the Fascist states of Germany and Italy-and the Allied Powers, including England, France, and eventually the U.S.
However, the most important historical event in the novel is World War II. There is too much history in All the Light We Cannot See to describe in much detail. At the moment, Doerr is a writer in residence at Iowa University, usually considered America’s best creative writing school. The novel was a national bestseller for many weeks, and won Doerr the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014. In 2014, he published his second novel, All the Light We Cannot See, his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful book. Doer also wrote a novel during the 2000s, About Grace, which was well received, but didn’t sell particularly well. Henry Prizes-often thought to be the most prestigious awards given for short fiction in the United States. Doerr’s stories won many impressive honors during the 2000s, including four O. He followed this collection with Memory Wall, another story collection. Doerr earned much attention at Bowling Green for his short stories, and in 2002 he succeeded in publishing a collection of his work, The Shell Collector. After graduating in 1995, he went on to the MFA program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaĪnthony Doerr was born in Cleveland, and studied history at Bowdoin College in Maine. Letter #10: Daniel LeBlanc to His Daughter
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