Struktur: All The Light We Cannot See

The brain is locked in total darkness of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

"Fragen Sie nicht, was die Struktur für den Einzelnen tun kann. Fragen Sie, was der Einzelne für die Jungenschaft." - Chapterman, 8 August 1939

                        Aufbau des Buches:

Zero – 7 August 1944

Leaflets (0.3 pages)
Bombers (0.5 pages)
The Girl  (1.5 pages)
The Boy (2.1 pages)
Saint-Malo  (1.6 pages)
Number 4 rue Vauborel (1.2 pages)
Cellar  (1.7 pages)
Bombs Away (1 page)

One – 1934

Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (4.5 pages)
Zolverein (3 pages)
Key Pound (4.3 pages)
Radio  (2.1 pages – Werner)
Take Us Home (2.1 pages – Marie-Laure)
Something Rising (2 pages – Werner)
page 40:  Light (2 pages – Marie-Laure)
One Flag Flutters Before Us  (2 pages – Werner)
Around The World in Eighty Days (2.7 pages – Marie)
The Professor  (2.1 pages – Werner)
page 50:  Sea of Flames (3 pages – Marie)
Open Your Eyes  (1.4 pages – Werner)
page 55:  Fade (1.4 pages – Marie-Laure)
The Principles of Mechanics  (2 pages – Werner)
page 59:  Rumors (2.1 pages – Marie-Laure)
Bigger Faster Brighter  (2.5 pages – Werner – State Youth)
page 65:  Mark of the Beast (1.8 pages – Marie-Laure – Nov 1939)
***page 67:  (untitled letter to the professor)  (1 page – Werner; letter by Jutta)
page 68:  Good evening.  Or Heil Hitler if You Prefer(1.4 pages – Werner)
page 70:  Bye-bye, Blind Girl (2.5 pages – Marie-Laure)
Making Socks(1.1 pages – Werner)
page 75:  Flight (4.2 pages – Marie-Laure – hoping for a train)
Herr Seidler (7 pages – Werner)
page 87:  Exodus (4.2 pages – Marie-Laure)

Two – 8 August 1944

Page 95:  Saint-Malo  (1 page)
Number 4 rue Vauborel (1.2 pages)
Hotel of Bees  (1.4 pages - Werner)
Down Six Flights (1.7 pages - Marie-Laure)
Trapped (1.6 pages – Werner)

Three – June 1940

Page 107:  Chateau  (4.6 pages)
Entrance Exam (4.6 pages – Werner)
Brittany  (2.1 pages - Marie-Laure)
* Madame Manec  (2.3 pages - Marie-Laure)
You Have Been Called (2.8 pages – Werner)
Occuper  (4.8 pages - Marie-Laure)
Don’t Tell Lies (3 pages – Werner)
Etienne  (2.4 pages - Marie-Laure)
Jungmanner (3.5 pages – Werner)
**Vienna  (2.5 pages – von Rumpel)
The Boches (3.1 pages – Marie-Laure)
Hauptmann (1.6 pages – Werner)
Flying Couch (2 pages – Marie-Laure)
The Sum of Angles (3.8 pages – Werner)
The Professor (5.3 pages – Marie-Laure)
Page 162:  (untitled, censored letters to Jutta)  (2 pages – Werner)
Perfumer (2 pages – Big Claude [Marie-Laure])
Time of the Ostriches (1.7 pages – Big Claude [Marie-Laure])
Weakest (2.1 pages – Werner)
Mandatory Surrender (1.4 pages – Marie-Laure)
**Museum (7.1 pages – von Rumpel)
The Wardrobe (2 pages – Marie-Laure)
Page 183:  Blackbirds (2.5 pages – Werner)
Page 186:  (untitled, duplicate of telephoned telegram)  (1 pages – Marie-Laure)

Bath  (3.5 pages – Marie-Laure)
Weakest (#2) (4.8 pages – Werner)
page 196:  The Arrest of the Locksmith (1.8 pages – Marie-Laure)

Four – 8 August 1944

**Page 201:  The Fort of La Cite  (2.5 pages – von Rumpel)
Atelier de Reparation (1.5 pages – Werner)
Two Cans (1.8 pages – Marie-Laure)
**Page 208:  Number 4 rue Vauborel (1.4 pages – von Rumpel)
What They Have (1.9 pages – Werner)
Trip Wire (1.2 pages – Marie-Laure)

Five – January 1941

Page 217:  January Recess  (7.2 pages – Werner)
He Is Not Coming Back (1.8 pages – Marie-Laure)
Page 227:  Prisoner (2.7 pages – Werner)
Plage du Mole (3.2 pages – Marie-Laure)
**Page 234:  Lapidary (2.3 pages – von Rumpel)
Page 237:  (untitled, uncensored letter from Papa to Marie-Laure)  (1 page)
Entropy (2.3 pages – Werner)
The Rounds (3 pages – Marie-Laure)
Nadel im Heuhaufen (3.5 pages – Werner)
Proposal
You Have Other Friends
Old Ladies Resistance Club
Diagnosis
Weakest (#3)
(letter from Papa, untitled)
Grotto
Intoxicated
The Blade and the Whelk
(untitled letter from Jutta to Werner)
Alive Before You Die
No Out
The Disappearance of Harold Bazin
Everything Poisoned
Visitors
(heavily censored, untitled letter from Werner to Jutta)
The Frog Cooks
Orders
Pneumonia
Page 289: (letter to Marie-Laure from Papa)
Treatments
Heaven
Frederick
Relapse

Six – 8 August 1944

**Page 303:  Someone In The House
The Death of Walter Bernd
Sixth-floor Bedroom
Making the Radio
In The Attic

Seven – August 1942

Page 317:  Prisoners
The Wardrobe
East
One Ordinary Loaf
Volkheimer
Fall
Sunflower
Stones
Grotto
The Messages
Loudenvielle
Gray
Fever
The Third Stone
The Bridge
Rue des Patriarches
White City
Page 372:  Telegram

Eight – 9 August 1944

Page 375:  Fort National
In The Attic
The Heads

Nine – May 1944

Page 397:  Edge of the World
Numbers
May
Hunting (Again)
...
The Arrest of Etienne LeBlanc
Page 432:  7 August 1944
Leaflets

Ten – 12 August 1944

Entombed
Page 443:  Fort National
Captain Nemo's Last Words
Visitor
Final Sentence
Music #1
Music #2
Music #3
Out
Page 461:  Wardrobe
Comrades
The Simultaneity of Instants
Are You There?
The Second Can
Birds of America
Cease-fire
Chocolate
Light

Eleven –  1945

Berlin
Page 492:  Paris

Twelve –  1974

Volkheimer
Page 500:  Jutta
Duffel
Saint-Malo
Laboratory
Visitor
Paper Airplane
The Key
Sea of Flames
Frederick

Thirteen –  2014

Page 527:  (untitled)  She lives to see the century turn.  She lives still.