Words of witness : the fiction of Elie Wiesel / Ľonard Rosmarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosmarin, Léonard A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Wiesel, Elie.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakville, Ontario : Mosaic Press, 2024.

Summary:

"A Unique and Revelatory Study of Elie Wiesel's Fiction "This study charts Elie Wiesel's spiritual trajectory through his fifteen novels. This journey takes him from the darkest, most overwhelming despair to a heart-warming celebration of life. This study is the only one which encompasses all of his works of fiction, from Dawn (1961) to Hostage (2010), all of which were written in and first published in French. After exploring these texts, one may appreciate how this very wise man preferred twilight and a candle rather than curse the darkness." -- From the Introduction by Ľonard Rosmarin Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. He could have equally and perhaps should have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. During his lifetime, he became world renowned as a lecturer and activist on the Holocaust. Drawing upon his personal experiences as a victim and survivor of the Holocaust, he transformed this into a crusade against violence, hatred, and oppression and became the spokesperson for humanizing ourselves and a defender of human rights. Elie Wiesel was also a prolific writer, journalist, translator, and essayist. It was Fraṅois Mauriac, the French novelist, who in 1956 convinced Wiesel to write fiction. As Ľonard Rosmarin states: "It was Elie Wiesel himself, in an interview I did in 1999, who stated that had he not survived the gruesome experience of the Nazi concentration camps, in all probability he would never have entertained any notion of becoming a novelist. After traversing the night of flames and horror of the Holocaust, he felt he absolutely had to create imaginary destinies in order to see more clearly within himself. Paradoxically, it is in his novels more so than in his non-fiction that he truly bares his soul.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rosmarin, Léonard A. Words of witness.

ISBN:

9781771617567

177161756X

OCLC:

1438829988

Publisher Number:

90100792437