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Orest
Slepokura
of Alberta,
Canada, reminds us that
Wiesel’s book is designated as a novel.
Can we believe in Wiesel?
Regarding Deborah
Barnhardt’s reaction to people’s skepticism at Elie Wiesel’s capacity for truth.
Here is a quotation from Elie
Wiesel, in reference to his own Holocaust writings:
“Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some
events do take place but are not true; others are,
although they never occurred.”Source: Elie Wiesel’s Legends of Our Time,
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. viii.
As for Elie Wiesel’s “memoir” Night — isn’t it designated as a novel? In other words, a work of his imagination.
Orest
SlepokuraAlberta, Canada
-
Our index
on Elie Wiesel -
Events
following the liberation of Buchenwald: [A
correspondence with Eli Wiesel about his memoirs,
Night, and how the account varies significantly from
one language-version to the next] -
Christopher
Hitchens on Wiesel in The Nation, Feb 2001: “Is there
a more contemptible poseur and windbag”