1 option
Elie Wiesel's Night / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Van Pelt Library PQ2683.I32 N8534 2009
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016. Nuit.
- Wiesel, Elie.
- Authors, French--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, French.
- Authors, French--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
- Judaism and literature--France.
- Judaism and literature.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 134 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009]
- Contents:
- Biographical sketch
- The story behind the story
- List of characters
- Summary and analysis
- Critical views
- Alfred Kazin reviews the first edition of the English translation
- Ellen S. Fine on father-son relations in Night
- Gary Henry on transcendence in Wiesel's work
- Peter Manseau on the hazards of holocaust theology
- Joseph Sungolowsky on holocaust autobiography
- Sabine and Harry Stein on the history of Buchenwald
- Colin Davis on Wiesel's narrative techniques
- Simon P. Sibelman on the role of time in the book
- Ora Avni on narrative and the burden of witness
- Ruth Franklin re-evaluates Night
- Works by Elie Wiesel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781604131987
- 1604131985
- OCLC:
- 244566820
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.