The Gates of the Forest (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s and early 1950’s
- Setting: Hungarian forests and villages, Paris, and Brooklyn
- Principal Characters: Gregor, Gavriel, Maria, Leib the Lion, Clara
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Mistaken or secret identity, 1940’s, Villages, Paris, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis, Martyrs or martyrdom, Holocaust, Jewish, Persecution, Hungary or Hungarians
- Locales: Paris, France, Brooklyn, NY, Hungary
The Novel
Beginning with spring and ending with winter, The Gates of the Forest is divided into four parts, each standing for a season in its natural order. The first and last parts concentrate on the inner self and the middle two on action. The novel first introduces Gregor, a Hungarian Jew in his late teens who, without his family, has escaped the Holocaust. While Gregor hides from the Nazis in a village forest, another Jew, a mysterious man of about thirty, happens upon his hiding place. Since this stranger has no name, Gregor gives him his own name, Gavriel,...
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