Elie Wiesel's Night, New edition (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Cover......Page 1
Elie Wiesel’s Night......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Elie Wiesel and the Drama of Interrogation......Page 12
The Power of Ambiguity: Elie Wiesel’s Night......Page 30
The Parable of Survival in Elie Wiesel’s Night......Page 34
The Absence of God? The Presence of God?
A Meditation in Three Parts on Night......Page 36
Mauriac’s Preface to Night: Thirty Years Later......Page 44
Wiesel’s Night as Anti-Bildungsroman......Page 48
Elie Wiesel’s La Nuit and L’Oublié: In Pursuit of Silence......Page 56
From Night to Twilight:
A Philosopher’s Reading of Elie Wiesel......Page 66
The Ethics of Reading Elie Wiesel’s Night......Page 80
Entering the “Night” of the
Holocaust: Studying Elie Wiesel’s Night......Page 108
Boyhood Unraveled: Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)......Page 142
Questioning Key Texts: A Pedagogical
Approach to Teaching Elie Wiesel’s Night......Page 146
The Poetics of Memory and Justice: Elie Wiesel
and Post-Holocaust Theological Reflection......Page 156
Gazing into the Mirror of Wiesel’s Night, Together......Page 178
Chronology......Page 186
Contributors......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 194
Acknowledgments......Page 198
Index......Page 200