"Remarkable rigor, range, and erudition. I am particularly impressed by Davis's courageous attempt to balance ethical and aesthetic concerns that continue to divide the critics dealing with the Holocaust."--Raymond Gay-Crosier, University of Florida "Brings a new perspective to Wiesel's literature."--Ellen Fine (City University of New York), author of Legacy of Night: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel's fiction is rooted in his experience as a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His work as a novelist ...
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"Remarkable rigor, range, and erudition. I am particularly impressed by Davis's courageous attempt to balance ethical and aesthetic concerns that continue to divide the critics dealing with the Holocaust."--Raymond Gay-Crosier, University of Florida "Brings a new perspective to Wiesel's literature."--Ellen Fine (City University of New York), author of Legacy of Night: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel's fiction is rooted in his experience as a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His work as a novelist has been accompanied by increasing involvement in human rights activities, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Working through some of the ethical implications of literary interpretation, Colin Davis examines the consequences of taking a modern critical perspective on Holocaust literature. With the notion of narrative secrecy fundamental to his study, he suggests that Wiesel's fiction is more darkly ambiguous and deeply complex than his stance on human rights issues. Drawing on Wiesel's short stories, novels, and essays, Davis illustrates the disjunction between the uncertainties expressed in Wiesel's fiction and the polemical confidence of some of his nonliterary writing. He discusses tensions in the fiction in the context of the personal, theological, intellectual, and aesthetic traumas of the Holocaust. He analyzes important themes in Wiesel's writing, such as madness, language and silence, and the death of the father, and links them in an original manner to the ideas of storytelling and of the loss of meaning. He ends by drawing some tentative conclusions about secrecy and interpretation through a consideration of Wiesel's most recent novel, The Forgotten. Davis acknowledges the risks involved in approaching Holocaust literature from the standpoint of fictional form. He writes, "By concentrating on hesitations and indeterminacies in Wiesel's writing, I do not for a moment intend to deny the awful reality of the Holocaust, or to detract from Wiesel's remarkable work as a human rights activist." While Wiesel's fiction is disturbingly enigmatic, Davis says, the pain on every page is radiantly clear. Colin Davis is a Fellow and Tutor in French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Lecturer in French at Oxford University. He is the author of Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction and has published articles on the relationships between philosophy and fiction.
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