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| Genre/Form: | Handbooks, manuals, etc Study guides |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sternlicht, Sanford V. Student companion to Elie Wiesel. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003 (OCoLC)647232019 |
| Named Person: | Elie Wiesel; Elie Wiesel; Elie Wiesel |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sanford Sternlicht |
| ISBN: | 0313325308 9780313325304 |
| OCLC Number: | 51963367 |
| Description: | viii, 137 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Backgrounds -- The life of Elie Wiesel -- Elie Wiesel's literary heritage and background: Hasidism, the Holocaust, the great Jewish books, and the Western literary tradition -- pt. 2. The Holocaust narratives -- Night (1958) -- Dawn (1961) -- The accident (1962) -- The town beyond the wall (1964) -- The gates of the forest (1964) -- pt. 3. After the Holocaust: hope and despair -- A beggar in Jerusalem (1970) -- The oath (1973) -- Later novels: The testament (1981), The fifth son (1985), The forgotten (1992), Twilight (1988), and The judges (2002) -- Selected nonfiction. |
| Series Title: | Student companions to classic writers. |
| Responsibility: | Sanford Sternlicht. |
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"Sanford Sternlicht has produced an excellent book for the general reader who knows some of Elie Wiesel's writings and wants to learn more about his work....[r]eaders will be delighted with Sternlicht's sensitive and elegant analysis of Wiesel's contribution to literature in the post-Holocaust era."-Jewish Observer Read more...
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