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We arrived at the station, where the cattle cars were waiting. Ever since my book Night I have pursued those nocturnal trains that crossed the devastated continent. Their shadow haunts my writing. They symbolize solitude, distress, and the relentless march of Jewish multitudes toward agony and death. I freeze every time I hear a train whistle.
— All Rivers Run to the Sea,
Elie Wiesel
Copyright © 1972, 1985 by Elie Weisel. Translation copyright 2006 by Marion Wiesel. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., New York, NY.
Which genre does this passage belong to?
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This is literary nonfiction — specifically an autobiographical memoir/testimonial (Holocaust memoir).
Why: it’s first-person reflection about the author’s own experience and writing ("Ever since my book Night… I have pursued… my writing"), it refers to a real historical event (trains, cattle cars, Jewish deportations), and it carries a personal, memorial tone rather than the conventions of fiction, poetry, or reportage.
Why: it’s first-person reflection about the author’s own experience and writing ("Ever since my book Night… I have pursued… my writing"), it refers to a real historical event (trains, cattle cars, Jewish deportations), and it carries a personal, memorial tone rather than the conventions of fiction, poetry, or reportage.
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