Wiesel, Elie (Vol. 3) - Wiesel, Elie 1928–
Wiesel, Elie 1928–
A Romanian-born French Jew now living in America, Wiesel is a novelist and man of letters and is considered an eloquent spokesman for contemporary Judaism. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
The novels of Elie Wiesel strike me as a singularly impressive instance of how the creative imagination can surprise our expectations of what its limits should be. It is natural enough to wonder whether it is really possible to write about the Holocaust, to use the written word, which by its very nature is committed to order, as a means of representing and assessing absolute moral chaos….
The achievement, however, of Elie Wiesel's five published books reminds us of the danger in issuing prescriptions about things of the spirit. He has managed to realize the terrible past imaginatively with growing artistic strength in a narrative form that is consecutive, coherent, and, at least on the surface, realistic, in...
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