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- The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night traces Eliezer’s psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.
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The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night traces Eliezer’s psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite many tests of his humanity, however, Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father.
- Elie Wiesel
- 1956
In the late 1950s, Wiesel wrote a manuscript that he intended to turn into a special, expanded Hebrew-language version of Night. However, before completion, Wiesel places the unfinished text in his archive, later discovered in 2016 by Wiesel's friend, Yoel Rappel , a historian and curator of his archive at Boston University .
- Elie Wiesel
- 1960: Night. New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages.
"Night" is a powerful and haunting memoir by Elie Wiesel that tells the story of his experiences as a young boy during the Holocaust. The book is a poignant and gripping account of Wiesel's struggles with his faith, identity, and humanity in the face of unimaginable suffering and loss.
After a decade of silence regarding his experiences during the Holocaust, Wiesel wrote Un di Velt Hot Geshvign which, two years and many revisions later, became the novel Night. Wiesel explains in his Preface to the text’s 2006 translation that despite his struggle to put the horrors he experienced into words, he felt a moral obligation to do so.
Jan 20, 2008 · Finally, in 1959, Arthur Wang of Hill & Wang agreed to take on “Night.”. The first reviews were positive. Gertrude Samuels, writing in the Book Review, called it a “slim volume of terrifying ...
Night Summary . Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. Night, often considered to be Elie Wiesel’s memoir of the Holocaust, was published in 1960. The novel opens with the main character, Eliezer, living in Sighet, a town in Hungarian Transylvania.
