Summary
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel
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.
Additional Information
Subjects |
Wiesel, Elie,
-- 1928-2016
-- Childhood and youth.
Jews -- Romania -- Sighetu Marmației -- Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Sighetu Marmației -- Personal narratives. Sighetu Marmației (Romania) -- Biography. Creative nonfiction. Autobiographies. |
Publisher | New York :Hill and Wang,2006 |
Edition | First edition. |
Other Titles | Nuit. |
Contributors |
Wiesel, Marion,
translator. |
Language |
English |
Notes |
Translation of: Nuit. "A new translation by Marion Wiesel; with a new preface by the author"--Cover. |
Description |
xxi, 120 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN | 9780809073566 0809073560 9780809073559 0809073552 |
Other | Classic View |