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...Beggar in Jerusalem, Wiesel
...BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM by Elie Wiesel, translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author. 21 1 pages. Random House...
Untrustworthy Words. Despite his own eloquence and the book's interlocking questions, Wiesel distrusts words. "They destroy what they aim to describe," Katriel says. "By enveloping the truth they end up taking its place." Questioning silences, Wiesel suggests in A Beggar, can be more trustworthy. They do not curtail explorations with limiting answers. Wiesel has observed elsewhere that "art must be a result of cumulative silences. The silences must become so full that they finally break out. Then you start writing...
...great achievement of A Beggar in Jerusalem is that Wiesel has shaped a story that shows men during a modern war yet does justice to the brooding silences in which all violent action and its consequences are pondered and perhaps judged...