{"id":27,"date":"2006-01-20T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-01-20T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T22:25:00","slug":"wiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/wiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished The Accident<\/em> yesterday. I wish I had liked it more, as I wish I had liked Dawn<\/em> more. Night<\/em> is easily the best of the three, its simple narrative much more powerful and affecting than the self-conscious philosophical arguments that dominate the other two.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that there’s nothing at all in the other two. Dawn<\/em> is amazing in its own way, especially after I didn’t believe throughout the entire book that Elisha would go through with it.<\/p>\n

And there’s absolutely no denying the power of the scene with the French prostitute in The Accident<\/em>, although her screaming at him that he’s a madman when he declares her a saint just didn’t ring true for me. Maybe it was the translation? I don’t know. I understood the power of the scene more than I felt like it was a true scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished The Accident yesterday. I wish I had liked it more, as I wish I had liked Dawn more. Night is easily the best of the three, its simple narrative much more powerful and affecting than the self-conscious philosophical arguments that dominate the other two. That’s not to say that there’s nothing at all … Continue reading Wiesel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}