Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.