The Accident (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Eliezer, Kathleen, His Grandmother, Dr. Paul Russel, Sarah, Gyula
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Memory, Love or romance, New York City, Guilt, Accidents, Life and death, Holocaust, Jewish
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novel
The Accident, a novella of little more than one hundred pages, is a psychological, philosophical, and spiritual journey. The narrator of the story, Eliezer, is a young journalist who has been spiritually immobilized by the Holocaust, in which he lost his family and of which he is a survivor. The narrative opens as Eliezer and Kathleen, his sweetheart, who loves him profoundly but to whom he is unable to make a commitment, are going to see the film version of The Brothers Karamazov in New York City. Hot, tired, bored, and lifeless, Eliezer lags...
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