Versions of survival: the Holocaust and the human spirit

After presenting theories of survival as put forth by such writers as Bettelheim, Frankl and Des Pres, Langer proceeds to analyze material that contradicts those theories. He also examines the work of Elie Wiesel and evaluates it in terms of Wiesel's version of survival. He challenges the concept that there is a prototypical survivor or any simple theory of survival that can be adequate