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...ELIE WIESEL: MESSENGER TO ALL HUMANITY by Robert McAfee Brown Notre Dame; 244 pages...
...Possessed, Dostoyevsky offers a characteristic irony: "I have a plan-to go mad." That remark is a motto of one of his literary heirs, Elie Wiesel. A survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel has long been recognized as a visionary, reading symbols in the charred remains of the Holocaust. But it is Wiesel the artist who commands the attention of Theologian-Critic Robert McAfee Brown. In Messenger to All Humanity, Brown provides the best introduction to the score of works that have made Wiesel a leading candidate for the Nobel Prize...
...side of history lies the cratered and extinct universe of the death camps, on the other, the indifferent world. "The connecting link," Brown observes, "is story." Wiesel's fierce tales were born of silence. After his liberation, he refused to speak on the subject of the Jewish agony. With good reason. Wiesel lost his mother and younger sister at the first "selection"; his father died soon afterward. "Children for me," he recalled, "evoke war, thunder and hate, shouts, screams, dogs howling." He was to search for ten years before he found a vocabulary that allowed him to articulate...
Harvard professors have won the prestigious annual award for medical discoveries in the past two years. Last year, University Professor David H. Hubel and Torston N. Wiesel, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology shared the prize with a scientist from the California Institute of Technology...
Friedrich, like Wiesel, has finally understood very little. To understand very much would be an insult. But he has borne witness to a horrific, obscene lot, and the reader must feel something of the grati tude that the woman in the cold felt to ward Akhmatova...