Night by Elie Wiesel



Night by Elie Wiesel

Introduction

Night is an autobiographical novel written by Elie Wiesel about his experience as orthodox Jewish teenager in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald during World War II and the Holocaust. `Night by Elie Wiesel is a clear testimony of the deportation of Jews during the Second World War. The main character is Elie Wiesel. After surviving one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity, Elie Wiesel took a 10-year vow of silence before writing about it. His book Night is one of the first and most powerful autobiographical accounts of the Holocaust ever written. Yet, after finally completing his first version of this text, he had difficulty finding a publisher for it, as most thought there would be little interest in reading about such a tragic experience (Bloom, 2009).

Discussion and Analysis

Wiesel's narrative style is characterized by short sentences, fragmented and diffuse, with frequent changes of view. According to the author, it is the style of the chroniclers of the ghettos, where all we have to say quickly, a single breath. We never knew when the enemy might be at your door. The recurring themes are unhappy with their progressive style. Wiesel was sixteen years old when Buchenwald was liberated on April 11, 1945 by Allied troops. After a period of ten years in which he refused to talk about the events that lived and having lost his trust in God and in humanity, decided to write his story in Yiddish, which was published in Buenos Aires in 1956. The French novelist François Mauriac persuaded to amend the story of his first text to cover a wider audience and in 1958 was published in French as a more concise version. This version has been translated into more than thirty languages and is ...