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Wiesel, Elie,--1928- --Criticism and interpretation.
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1994
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PQ2683.I32Z655 1994eb
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Wiesel, Elie,--1928- --Criticism and interpretation.
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Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts
Colin Davis
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Copyright 1994 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, Colin. Elie Wiesel's secretive texts / Colin Davis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8130-1303-8 1. Wiesel, Elie, 1928- Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PQ2683.I32Z655 1994 94-8400 813.54dc20
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For Sarah
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We are most unwilling to accept mystery, what cannot be reduced to other and more intelligible forms. Yet that is what we find here: something irreducible, therefore perpetually to be interpreted; not secrets to be found out one by one, but Secrecy. Perhaps that secrecy is nothing more than our own bewilderment projected into the text. Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy, 143
The better the story is, the more it appears clothed. The secret must remain in a pure state. Wiesel, Entre deux soleils, 248
Usually, Rabbi Bounam would explain his parables, whilst indicating that their true and deep meaning eluded explanation. The secret of the secret cannot be divulged, he would say. Wiesel, Clbration hassidique, 228
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations
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Introduction
1
One After the Event
7
Two Storytelling
31
Three The Conversion to Ambiguity (Early Works)
52
Four Crises of Narration (Later Fiction)
86
Five Victims and Executioners
113
Six Impaired Meaning
141
Conclusion: Secrecy
175
Notes
185
Bibliography
193
Index
199
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Acknowledgments
Some of the material in chapter 3 appeared previously in "Understanding the Concentration Camps: Elie Wiesel's La Nuit and Jorge Semprun's Quel Beau Dimanche!" in Australian Journal of French Studies 28, no. 3 (1991): 291303; my thanks to the editor for permission to reprint the material.
I also thank all those who have helped, advised, or encouraged me during the preparation of this book, particularly Sarah Kay, Simon Gaunt, Leslie Hill, Mark Treharne, Christina Howells, Bill Calin, Raymond Gay-Crosier, and Ellen Fine.
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Abbreviations
Full references to works cited are given in the bibliography. Translations from the French are my own. I have attempted as far as possible to reproduce the format of Wiesel's texts; however, I have not retained original italics in passages. In quotations from Wiesel's works, ellipses enclosed in brackets denote omitted text; unbracketed ellipses are in the original.
Works frequently cited have been identified by the following abbreviations:
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