The Accident | Literary Precedents
Several memoirs of Holocaust survivors serve as literary precedents, for they demonstrate, as Wiesel does, the impossibility of returning to normal life after the Holocaust. Two influential memoirs with which Wiesel would no doubt be familiar are Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz (1958) and Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1948). These two works manifest how a Holocaust survivor, such as Eliezer (the narrator), can be affected forever by the atrocities. Levi, an Italian chemist, and Borowski, a Polish underground writer, describe how life in...
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