![]() First US edition | |
Author | Elie Wiesel |
---|---|
Language | French |
Publisher |
Éditions du Seuil Summit Books (US) |
Publication date | 1980 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1981 |
Media type | Print ( Hardback & Paperback) |
Awards | Prix du Livre Inter (1980) |
ISBN | 978-2-02-005457-7 (Seuil) |
Preceded by | The Oath |
Followed by | The Fifth Son |
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980), [1] translated into English as The Testament (1981) [2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel. The Testament, to be followed by The Fifth Son, and The Forgotten mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. [3] The novel takes the form of the memoirs of a Russian Jewish poet, Paltiel Kossova, whose idealism leads him to turn from his Jewish religious heritage towards communism. [4] The novel won the Prix du Livre Inter, and Prix des Bibliothécaires, Prix Interallie 1980 and was nominated for the Prix Concourt.