Night

Elie Wiesel 1960

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
Holocaust WWII memoir faith

Our Take

Wiesel was fifteen when he arrived at Auschwitz. He spent his life arguing about whether language could carry what he saw, and wrote it down anyway. The moment of his father's death — what Eliezer did and did not do — is the most honest passage in Holocaust testimony. The question he asks of God has no answer.

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