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{en} [[Elie Wiesel]]. ''The Night'', tr. Stella Rodway (New York: Hill & Wang; and London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960). | |||
== Abstract == | |||
"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."--Publisher description. | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children Studies--1960s]] | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children Studies--English]] | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Memoirs (subject)]] | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, 1928 (subject)]] | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Romania (subject)]] | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Deportees (subject)]] | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, Deportees, Romania (subject)]] | |||
[[Category:Auschwitz (subject)]] | |||
[[Category:Buchenwald (subject)]] |
Latest revision as of 06:06, 21 March 2022
{en} Elie Wiesel. The Night, tr. Stella Rodway (New York: Hill & Wang; and London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960).
Abstract
"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."--Publisher description.
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- Holocaust Children Studies--1960s
- Holocaust Children Studies--English
- Holocaust Children, Memoirs (subject)
- Holocaust Children, 1928 (subject)
- Holocaust Children, Romania (subject)
- Holocaust Children, Deportees (subject)
- Holocaust Children, Deportees, Romania (subject)
- Auschwitz (subject)
- Buchenwald (subject)