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The survivor's guilt

Wiesel and Sciascia on terror and the Holocaust

Robert Grant

pp. 217-221

Abstrakt

Elie Wiesel at sixteen was a veteran of both Buchenwald and Auschwitz. It is to him that we owe the "Holocaust" metaphor, and that event and its aftermath are the theme of these novellas, first completed in French in 1961 and published in English in 1974. Not only the theme itself — which a word such as "harrowing" is wholly inadequate to describe — but the knowledge that the details are autobiographical, make it easy to forget that his trilogy is, technically, a work of fiction.

Publication details

Published in:

Grant Robert (2000) The politics of sex and other essays: on conservatism, culture and imagination. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seiten: 217-221

DOI: 10.1057/9780333982426_20

Referenz:

Grant Robert (2000) The survivor's guilt: Wiesel and Sciascia on terror and the Holocaust, In: The politics of sex and other essays, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 217–221.