The Tragedy of War -- A Neorealism Interpretation of All the Lights We Cannot See

Abstract

The novel All the Light We Cannot See by contemporary American novelist Anthony Doerr, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. From the perspective of neorealism, this paper analyzes the different living environments and different ways of growth and redemption of Werner and Marie-Laure. At the same time, it reveals the survival difficulties of people during the war and thus reveals the anti-human and destructive nature of war.