Is God Man's Friend?

Theodicy and Friendship in Elie Wiesel's Novels

Carole J. Lambert (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

127 Seiten

2006
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-7926-2 (ISBN)

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Elie Wiesel’s novels – The Town Beyond the Wall, Twilight, The Gates of the Forest, The Accident, A Beggar in Jerusalem, and The Judges – win literary prizes in France, but often receive poor reviews in the United States. Lambert analyzes them clearly and cogently via two key themes: theodicy and friendship. She shows how the angry, embittered Holocaust survivor protagonists approach the God who seems to have broken His covenant at Auschwitz. This approach to God is made through friendships, some real and some mystical. Her analyses now render Wiesel’s novels accessible to Americans who may already appreciate his essays and memoirs.

«No novelist has explored the Holocaust’s reverberations more thoroughly than Elie Wiesel. No scholar has provided a more sensitive reading or a better informed interpretation of Wiesel’s major novels than Carole Lambert. By emphasizing key themes about friendship, humankind’s struggle against injustice, and God’s relation to history, her study deepens not only our grasp of Wiesel’s writing but also our insight about life itself.» (John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and Director, The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College, California)

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8204-7926-8 / 0820479268
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-7926-2 / 9780820479262
Zustand	Neuware