Book 21: Night

Book 21: Night
By Elie Wiseal.
Mark Turkov
1960
Rating:
3

Amazon.com Review


In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.

What do I think?
Just a pre-note: Yeah, it's a memoir so there should be some kind of different way to evaluate it, but there isn't. Not this time around. All right, it's about the Holocaust and what appen to Elie, so I can't really strike the story, but I can judge how it was written.
It could have been written better. This book does make you think, but it also makes you think how to textually good book. Gramically correct and not trailing off into other stories, I mean.
It wasn't staright forward 'this is what happened and this is how I'm going to tell it.' It kind of skipped from one thing to another a lot of the time, which was troublesome.