The Works of Elie Wiesel
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The purpose of this research paper is to present an in-depth study of the works of Elie Wiesel. Wiesel's canon includes several novels which have been hailed as an extraordinary journey into the depths of the experience of man, a writer who is concerned with the universal questions of life and death, and of God and man. In his fiction, which is all of it more or less autobiographical, Wiesel challenges the reader to come with him on an epic journey which is both devastating and profound. His own miraculous survival of the death camps in World War II and his vision make his issues similar to those voiced in the Book of Job. Why is it, he asks, that man suffers? This research paper will examine several of Wiesel's novels, using the Book of Job for comparison, and will thus explore the levels of hope and despair which are continually brought to the readers' attention through the spiritual quest on which Wiesel's narrators are struggling. Wiesel's themes of ancient and difficult questions are combined with some of the most dramatic and pressing problems of the modern age, making his work both astounding and insightful. He writes of the problems as old as mankind with the depth and brilliance of a distinctly modern man. A. J. Heschel has said of Wiesel that he "does not describe; he casts a spell. His imagination is in a state of trance. His words are a voice crying in the hideousness of our time." Elie Wiesel was born in Hungary in 1928 and deported to Auschwitz when
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ils the relationship between a man and a woman, and investigates the possibility of love as an answer to human suffering. Yet again, despair and bitterness are close on the heels of the narrator, and his attempts to patch up the darkness with love fail him. It is significant that Wiesel includes an epigram from Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek in this story, which says:
I was once more struck by the truth of the ancient saying: Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the nearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink (Wiesel, The Accident, 1972, p. 215).
In the opening passage, the narrator tells us the details of an automobile accident which almost took his life. He is with his lover, Kathleen, and he details his thoughts--"I must lie" --as he recognizes his central alienation from the woman he is trying desperately to love, or, at least, to rescue from pain. And, strikingly, he comments as he describes the events leading up to the accident itself that he had seemed to hesitate unknowingly, as if waiting for the accident to occur. There is in this a chilling sense of predestination, of a fate wh
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