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at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Dec 01, 2005
Professor Wiesel reads and comments on passages from his novel, The Time of the Uprooted. He explains that this is something new: whereas a lecture at the 92Y usually takes him two months to prepare; this one took him five years. It is the tale of Gamaliel, a ghostwriter for famous authors in France. It is a novel about encounters with people, with language, with writing, with the power or impotence of words. “In this novel, everything and everybody is uprooted” and once uprooted, a refugee is nowhere at home. Similarities abound between Gamaliel and EW: Hungarian, a refugee, always thinking and learning, compelled to write testimonies but questions the ability of words to describe events of the twentieth century and the power of silence. Professor Wiesel teaches us that the book is a multitude of stories, intertwined with one another, in the style of the great storyteller, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, a style taught and followed by Professor Wiesel himself.
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