The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident - Softcover

Elie Wiesel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374521409 ISBN 13: 9780374521400

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1987

Synopsis

Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day.

In the short novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang. Command to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage, the former victim becomes an executioner.

In The Accident, (1962), Wiesel again turns to fiction to question the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the author writes in his introduction, "In Night it is the 'I' who speaks; in the other two [narratives], it is the 'I' who listens and questions."

Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction.

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About this title

About the Author:

Elie Wiesel, the author of some twenty books, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Boston University. He and his family live in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0374521409
• ISBN 13: 9780374521400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317