Cette trilogie évocatrice plonge dans les aspects les plus sombres de l'expérience humaine durant l'une des périodes les plus déchirantes de l'histoire. La série explore la résilience de l'esprit humain face à une souffrance et une perte inimaginables. Elle offre une perspective profondément personnelle sur les horreurs de l'Holocauste, tout en examinant la lueur d'espoir qui peut persister même dans le désespoir le plus profond. Ces œuvres sont des témoignages puissants de survie et de la nature indomptable de l'esprit humain.
Un enfant juif face au mal absolu. Récit de l'expérience vécue par l'auteur dans les camps nazis (Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna et Buchenwald). Ce roman est à la base de toute l'oeuvre de Wiesel et doit être lu en premier. [SDM]
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir Night and novel Dawn. "In Night it is the ‘I' who speaks," writes Wiesel. "In the other two, it is the ‘I' who listens and questions."In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life or death, Day again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel's trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one's religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination.
Three works deal with a concentration camp survivor, a hostage holder in Palestine, and a recovering accident victim.