Night
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Night is the best-selling and best-known book of Holocaust memoirs. In the USA alone, where the writer lives, by the end of last year over six million copies had been sold. This is the story of the deportation of 15-year-old Elie Wiesel and his family in the fall of 1944 from the Romanian town of Sigata to Auschwitz. This is a story about life and death in the camp. This is the story of a terrible march, at the end of which Wiesel's father falls ill and dies. Indeed, it is difficult not to call “Night” a book about the loss of faith, a book about the death of God, and perhaps His murder. Wiesel says that once someone even wrote a study on the topic of the death of God in his work. However, he himself insists that he did not write about the death of G-d at all. “People misunderstood me,” says the writer. “I have never lost faith in G-d.” I rebelled against G‑d's silence. I had questions and protests.” Wiesel explains: “G-d is in the boy who is being killed now.” “What I wanted to say was that every time a Jew was killed, they were trying to kill G‑d,” he adds. According to him, perhaps after the Holocaust it was indeed appropriate to say: “G-d, bye-bye, goodbye, that’s enough.” “But instead I started arguing with Him, and I argue with Him all the time,” says Wiesel.
Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Эли Визель
- Language
- Russian
- Translator
- Ольга Вольфовна Боровая