Struggle for Understanding, The: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works
Philip Smith, "Struggle for Understanding, The: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works "
English | ISBN: 1438475462 | 2020 | 316 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1438475462 | 2020 | 316 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, memory, trauma, madness, atrocity, and faith.
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