Sprache:
Französisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Plurielles
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2010) 45-52
Schlagwort(e):
Families in literature
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Jewish literature History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Kurzfassung:
Questions - The abstract is not clear. It sounds like a condemnation of Wiesel, who dehumanized his father. Later, you mention "Wiesel's treason" - against whom? Both his father and God? What constitutes an attempt to draw closer to his father? How is it that Kertész writes in order to be "anonymous and invisible"? The act of writing itself contradicts this.
Kurzfassung:
Analyzes the son-father relationship in Elie Wiesel's "La nuit" (1958) and the father-son relationship in Imre Kertész' "Kaddish pour l'enfant qui ne naîtra pas" (originally published in Hungarian as "Kaddis a meg nem születettett gyermekért", 1990). Wiesel's rejection of his father, who was deported to Buchenwald at the same time with him and perished there, is an important step in the process of dehumanization. By also rejecting God, Wiesel brings terrible solitude upon himself. "La nuit" bears witness to Wiesel's treason and constitutes an attempt to get close to the father. Kertész, on the other hand, writes in order to be anonymous and invisible: a survivor, a living-dead person, the only identity left for him after Auschwitz. He refuses to perpetuate life by engendering a child, since that would contradict his life's only purpose: to take on his state as a living-dead.
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