Elie Wiesel - Night Full Text 2-1 - Ms. Roth's World of Literature
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DAWN DAY (previously THE ACCIDENT) THE TOWN BEYOND THE WALL THE GATES OF THE FOREST THE JEWS OF SILENCE LEGENDS OF OUR TIME A BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM ONE GENERATION AFTER SOULS ON FIRE THE OATH ANI MAAMIN (cantata) ZALMEN, OR THE MADNESS OF GOD
(play)
MESSENGERS OF GOD A JEW TODAY FOUR HASIDIC MASTERS THE TRIAL OF GOD (play) THE TESTAMENT FIVE BIBLICAL PORTRAITS SOMEWHERE A MASTER
THE GOLEM (illustrated by Mark Podwal)
THE FIFTH SON AGAINST SILENCE (edited by Irving
Abrahamson)
THE OSLO ADDRESS
TWILIGHT
THE SIX DAYS OF DESTRUCTION
(with Albert Friedlander)
A JOURNEY INTO FAITH
(conversations with John Cardinal O'Connor)
A SONG FOR HOPE (cantata)
FROM THE KINGDOM OF MEMORY
SAGES AND DREAMERS
THE FORGOTTEN
A PASSOVER HAGGADAH (illustrated
by Mark Podwal)
ALL RIVERS RUN TO THE SEA
MEMOIR IN TWO VOICES (with
Fran?ois Mitterand)
KING SOLOMON AND HIS MAGIC
RING (illustrated by Mark Podwal)
AND THE SEA IS NEVER FULL
THE JUDGES
CONVERSATIONS WITH ELIE
WIESEL (with Richard D. Heffner)
WISE MEN AND THEIR TALES
THE TIME OF THE UPROOTED
Night
ELIE WIESEL
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARION WIESEL
H I L L AND WANG A DIVISION OF FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
NEW YORK
Hill and Wang A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York 10003
Copyright ? 1958 by Les Editions de Minuit Translation copyright ? 2006 by Marion Wiesel Preface to the New Translation copyright ? 2006 by Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech copyright ? 1986 by the Nobel Foundation
All rights reserved Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.
Printed in the United States of America Published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback by Hill and Wang
First edition of this translation, 2006
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005936797 Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-374-39997-9 Hardcover ISBN-10:0-374-39997-2 Paperback ISBN-13:9 78-0-3 74-50001-6 Paperback ISBN-10:0-374-50001-0
Designed by Abby Kagan
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In memory of my parents and of my little sister, Tzipora
E.W.
This new translation in memory of my grandparents, Abba, Sarah and Nachman, who also vanished into that night
M.W.
Preface to the New Translation by Elie Wiesel
IF IN MY LIFETIME I WAS TO WRITE only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past lingers in the present, all my writings after Night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear its stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works.
Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind? Was it to leave behind a legacy of words, of memories, to help prevent history from repeating itself? Or was it simply to preserve a record of the ordeal I endured as an adolescent, at an age when one's knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what one discovers in literature? There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text. I am not convinced. I don't know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me,
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