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. 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. 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.
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.
Noc to książka, która zapisała się w historii, tworząc w niej głęboko wyryty ślad pamięci ofiar Holokaustu. Niewielka objętością, mieści w sobie niewyobrażalny ciężar ludzkiego cierpienia. Ten tekst może wstrząsnąć, zaboleć, a na pewno sprowokować do refleksji. Noc zostaje z czytelnikiem jeszcze długo po lekturze. Elie Wiesel, żydowski pisarz i laureat Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla, stworzył przejmujący, autobiograficzny obraz przetrwania w nazistowskich obozach śmierci. Jako nastolatek wraz z rodziną został wywieziony do Birkenau, następnie trafił do Monowitz i Buchenwaldu. Noc to bardzo osobiste wspomnienie autora. To opowieść o rozstaniu z matką i małą siostrą, których już nigdy nie zobaczył, oraz o obozie, w którym dzielił z ojcem głód, zimno, bicie, tortury, i w którym został odarty z resztek człowieczeństwa. Noc to więcej niż relacja z codzienności obozu: okrucieństw, strachów i szalejącego sadyzmu. To także próba znalezienia odpowiedzi na wiele filozoficznych i osobistych pytań. Książka została wydana w 1958 roku przez Editions de Minuit. Jest to pierwsze dzieło w dorobku Elie Wiesela, który od tego czasu napisał ponad czterdzieści utworów literatury pięknej i faktu.
The Nobel Peace prize-winning author's controversial masterpiece
'I am going mad, Pedro. I feel it. I know it. I have plunged into madness as into the sea. And I am about to sink into its depths . . .'
Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a visiting professional with a secret, highly personal quest.
A Holocaust survivor who has painstakingly rebuilt his life, he has watched, horrified and helpless, as it all started coming apart. He longs for Pedro, the man who rescued him in postwar Poland - who became his mentor, hero, saviour and friend - and taught him truth from falsehood. But Pedro vanished into Stalin's gulags . . .
Desperate to explain his own survival, Raphael now seeks among the delusional patients the answers to the mysteries of good, evil and madness.
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. 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. 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. 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.
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.
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. 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. 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. 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.
Elie Wiesel (b. 1928) was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.
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