2/12/2024 0 Comments Elie wiesel night book cover![]() I felt like a child, like a complete and utter fool. My parents wanted to spare me from what exactly that meant until they thought I was mature enough to be able to absorb it.Īnd for the first time in my life I was completely self-aware. ![]() I had only been told in the vaguest terms what had happened, that so many millions of people had been killed, that Hitler and his men had sought to exterminate the Jewish people. I watched documentaries about it with my father, the history nerd, listened to the few stories that my grandfathers would tell, but up until that point I had been intentionally sheltered from the horrors of the holocaust. ![]() Both of my grandfathers served in it and so my parents wanted to make sure that we understood the sacrifices they made, the things they saw. I got mad at my mom when she made me go to bed on time, I complained if I didn’t like what we were having for dinner and I argued about what I was and wasn’t allowed to watch on TV. My biggest concern was whether or not a boy named Jason liked me back. Before this book my world was sunshine and rainbows. I first read this in my eighth grade History class. But can we, the reader, even understand what happened there? Can modern men and women comprehend that cursed universe? The author, who is actually in the above picture, said it best in the forward “Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was.” I think we can all agree with that. 'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' 'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record' If you enjoyed Night, you might also like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. 1928) was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.Įlie Wiesel (b. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics.īorn into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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