And the Sea Is Never Full (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1969-1999
- Setting: United States, Europe, and Israel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Memory, Europe or Europeans, Jews or Jewish life, 1990’s, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps, Museums, Israel-Arab War
- Locales: Europe, United States, Israel
“All rivers run to the sea,” says Ecclesiastes, “and the sea is never full.” Elie Wiesel took the title of his first volume of memoirs from that biblical verse’s initial phrase. Tous les fleuves vont à la mer (1994; All Rivers Run to the Sea, 1995) ended where its sequel begins, with his marriage to Marion Erster Rose in Jerusalem on April 2, 1969. On June 6, 1972, their son Elisha was born. Both events, life-changing and joyful ones for Wiesel, figure prominently in his second volume, which also takes its title from Ecclesiastes. That title theme—the sea is...
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