François Mauriac

thought about the consequence of a horror that, though less apparent, less striking than the other outrages, is yet the worst of all to those of us who have faith: the death of a God in the soul of a child who suddenly discovers absolute evil?” (Francois Mauriac ix) In other words, the worst thing that can happen to a faithful person is the death of their faith due to the unearthing of sinful reality. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel a young boy is taken away from his family and is placed in…

Wiesel lived in a French orphanage until 1948 and then moved to Paris to study. He began to write for many French and Yiddish newspapers. He met Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac and Nobel convinced him to break his vow of silence and write of the horrors he witnessed. Wiesel first wrote the 900-page memoir Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent) in Yiddish, and is seen as a more cynical view toward the…

Over the years, Flannery O’Connor has produced piece after piece of inspiring literature. Her work has been commemorated on several occasions in addition to her winning awards such as The National Book Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Ford Foundation, a fellowship from the Kenyon Review, and finally several O. Henry awards. Clearly, there was something about O’Connor’s work that caught people’s attention. While there are many aspects of O’Connor’s…

weeks after his father 's death, he was set free. After the liberation of the camps in April 1945, Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage where he was reunited with his older sisters, Hilda and Bea. It was on the urging of Catholic writer Francois Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, that Elie wrote about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir…