Anthony Doerr
All The Light We Cannot See, is considered a WWII fiction written by Anthony Doerr. This piece of work has many things happening at one time, despite each chapter having a different setting and time period. In an article by Dominic Green, he sees the novel as implausible. In Greens article, there are three types of normalization; relativization, universalization, and aestheticization. Relativization is characterized by the desire to “diminish the moralistic aura that comes with exceptionality,” or, in the case of the novel, Doerr presents both sides of violence as equivalent—both the Allies and the Nazis—as “amoral, deterministic forces.” All violence is lumped in together, with no clear aggressor or defender identified. “Doerr’s novel is an
unsavory mixture of relativizing and aetheticing,” says Green. He represents all violence, Nazi or allied, as equivalent, the product of amoral, deterministic forces.
unsavory mixture of relativizing and aetheticing,” says Green. He represents all violence, Nazi or allied, as equivalent, the product of amoral, deterministic forces.