Rating - 5/5
Copy - Personal Paperback
“I Have lost faith in everyone except Hitler. He alone has kept promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”
One of the many instances the reader will come across while reading Elie Wisel’s autobiographical account – instances that sends chill to your bone. The NYT rightly reviews the book when it says - a slim volume of terrifying powers. While reviewing this book, it is difficult not to be emotional . Each word denotes a singular breath of the author. The experiences are described in the most simplest words but carry the most powerful experiences.
“Night” is an unsettling account of daily life in the concentration camp – the never ending hunger, the sadist doctor who pulls out the gold crown from his tooth, the account of his father getting beaten up to the inch of his life. The experience that jumps out of the book is the honesty in which the author faces his guilt. The guilt of not shedding a tear seeing his father beaten up, the guilty relief at his father’s death.
“Night” raises profound questions about God and existence. The events of Holocaust is decades behind us. In the preface Wiesel explains why he wanted to write this account – “duty to bear witness for the dead & living” He probably exceeded his duty in keeping the tragic memory of inedible dark mark on humanity alive.
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