All Rivers Run to the Sea (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Principal Characters: Elie Wiesel, Sarah Wiesel, Shlomo Wiesel, Hilda, Bea, Tsiporah, Rabbi Israel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, World War II, Spiritual life or spirituality, Jews or Jewish life, Ethics, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Genocide
Autobiographies pour out names and faces. Memoirs are detailed by encounters large and small. While conforming to those conventions, this book is unconventional. It is distinctive not only because Elie Wiesel recalls extraordinary encounters and remembers striking names and faces, but especially because this work shows how his remarkable moral and spiritual outlook emerged from the twentieth century’s greatest darkness.
Intertwined, three fundamental facts pulse at the heart of Wiesel’s story. He is a Jew, a writer, and a survivor of the Holocaust, which was the systematic,...
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