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Article: Twilight.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- September 5, 1988
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Twilight By Elie Wiesel Summit. 217 pp. $17.95
ONE OF THE deep mysteries of AmeriCan intellectual fife is its continuing insularity. Compared to the great literary cultures-of England or France or preStalin Russia-we have not come very far along the road to understanding the man of letters; in fact, we haven't made much progress in this respect since the time of Henry James. I'm speaking of the kind of man who embodies in his career a special address to spiritual, social and/ or moral values, and who develops his themes by employing many, if not all, of the forms available: the novel, the essay, poetry, drama.
In France, Voltaire and Rousseau were ...