The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

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Night is one of the crucial masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it’s the autobiographical account of a youngster boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes in their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a solution to keep in mind the wanton cruelty he witnesses on a daily basis.

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 creator writes in his introduction, “In Night it is the ‘I’ who speaks; within the other two [narratives], it’s the ‘I’ who listens and questions.”

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

A Hill & Wang Teacher’s Guide is to be had for this title.

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