![]() ![]() Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Just as the past lingers in the present, all my writ-ings after Night, including those that deal with biblical, Tal-mudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear its stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. ![]() Night is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. by Elie Wiesel I F IN MY LIFETIME I WAS TO WRITE only one book, this would be the one. A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. ![]() Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives,Ĭanadian drama (dramatic works by one author), ![]()
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