... and darker when thinking about the past events. As we can read in the preface, he even describes this version as "a gloomy meditation on the present" (Wiesel xii). In this specific version, Wiesel claims that people are moving too quickly and that not enough importance is ... streets of Hamburg and Munich. The past seems to have been erased, relegated to oblivion." (Wiesel xii) These quotes from the preface allow us to detect the author's anger when thinking about the Holocaust and its present collective memory of it. Wiesel is shocked at how a large majority of ... the Holocaust might h...

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