Word: paltiel
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...different kind of angst: the transformation from practicing Jew to militant Communist, a journey taken by thousands of thinkers and millions of chanting followers from the steps of the Winter Palace to the barbed wire of the Gulag. Wiesel reduces that odyssey to the tale of a single wanderer, Paltiel Kossover, a minor poet whose life becomes a battle between the divine and the dialectic...
...Paltiel's memoirs are smuggled out of prison by a sympathetic court stenographer who passes the manuscript to Kossover's mute son Grisha. The boy's inability to speak is the symbolic disability of a new generation. But Grisha escapes his father's fate when he emigrates to Israel with the tale committed to memory...