Night by Elie Wiesel

Introduction

The night, which was published in 1958 in Paris, is an autobiographical novel in which the author recounts his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, carrying out even deep thoughts about God's existence. In 2001, with permission from Wiesel, was created by the Cultural Zeta Archive (www. archive-zeta.org) a multimedia theater project taken from the night, presented for the first time at the theater in Trieste Miela January 27, 2002, at the second Holocaust Memorial Day(Wiesel 52). Elie Wiesel has also agreed to collaborate on a video in which some parts of his book reads and answers questions about the Holocaust and contemporary issues.

The performance living in Milan, a native of San Francisco, was represented in January 2003. The story is divided on the memories and impressions of the writer Elie Wiesel jew, who was deported to Auschwitz and later Buchenwald with his family.

Discussion

The narrator of The Night is Eliezer, a young Jewish orthodox , deeply pious and studious, studying the Talmud every day and short night at the synagogue to "mourn the destruction of the Temple . He'll also find Moshe the Beadle, head (Shamash in Hebrew) the maintenance of the synagogue Hasidic local frequented by Wiesel and the poorest inhabitants of the city with the "awkwardness of the clown " but very popular - it teaches Kabbalah and the mysteries of the universe. Moses believes that "man is raised to God by the questions he raises" and that "any question possesses a power that does not lie in the response(Wyatt 54). "The Night comes up frequently on the subject of a spiritual faith nourished not by answers but questions.

When the Hungarian government decreed the expulsion of Jews unable to prove their citizenship, Moshe the Beadle and other foreign Jews were crammed into a cattle train and deported to Galicia , they say. We cry a little, we forget and we learn to work and are satisfied with their lot .He describes his child's eyes the gradual disintegration and dispersal of his family in the tragic circumstances of the detention and deportation to extermination camps, sees his mother and beloved sister to start with one of those ovens from which, shortly afterwards, there was a dense black smoke, and sees his father go out day after day, until his death. At the same time, he goes out that faith in God, the God of our Fathers, until then still strong and alive, which is replaced by doubt, uncertainty, and despair(Kremer 54).

Replacing the images of childhood horror scenarios in a series of snapshots cruel, impossible to forget, that will mark the future of a man who has never been a child. The image of the night, darkness, pain, like a black cloak is spread through the pages and soul, leaving a strong emotion in the reader, an unforgettable experience.

Night is a story of Elie Wiesel based on his experience as a young Orthodox Jew, he was deported with his family in the death camp Nazi to Auschwitz, ...