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Article: Elie Wiesel. Le temps des deracines.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- May 1, 2004
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Elie Wiesel. Le temps des deracines. Paris. Seuil 2003 297 pages. 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-02-054186-6
ALTERNATELY WRITTEN in the first person by Gamliel Friedman and in the third person by an omniscient narrator, Elie Wiesel's novel Le temps des deracines relates through both a series of flashbacks and current happenings the existence of a small group of post-World War II refugees who have ended up in New York. As they sit in cafes and restaurants, each loves to laugh and tell stories, invented or real, of courage, despair, betrayal.
From an early age on, Gamliel loved beggars and madmen whose tales, allegories, and parables helped create not only his view of ...