Elie Wiesel . He is a Romanian writer, political and human rights activist. His best-known literary work in Castilian is the so-called Night Trilogy , where he recounts his passage through various Nazi concentration camps in which he was locked up for his Jewish origin.
Summary
[ hide ]
- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Literary works
- 2 His works
- 3 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born in Sighet the 30 of September of 1928 ), at 16 years old, Wiesel was captured by the Germans, like all the Jews of his town when the Nazis invaded his country. The only survivor of his family, at the end of the Second World War he settled in Paris and studied philosophy and literature at the Sorbonne University. Upon finishing his studies, he devoted himself to journalism and worked for publications in France , Israel and the United States . In 1956 he settled in the United States .
Literary works
With the advice of F. Mauriac, he managed to publish his novel La noche (1958) in French, the first part of a trilogy where he dealt in depth with the drama of the Jewish holocaust, and which he completed years later with El alba (1960) and El día ( 1961). In works such as Biblical Celebration: Stories and Legends of the Old Testament (1972), and Against Melancholy (1996), he turned to Hasidism and Jewish mysticism to respond to the inexplicable experience of despair and horror. His reflections in these texts promoted a moral of daily life based on the valorization of tolerance among men, without forgetting the experience of the holocaust.
With the intention of helping to prevent the world from repeating a barbaric situation like the one produced in the Nazi concentration camps, he devoted himself with fervor to practicing the exercise of memory, as a reaffirmation of life. His permanent intervention in international human rights forums, his role as Chairman of President Jimmy Carter’s Holocaust Commission, and his tireless activity in favor of human brotherhood, earned him the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize . His memoirs, published under the title All torrents go to sea (1996), are a moving testimony of the Nazi captivity, and a fervent plea for world peace.
His work
- Prophetic Celebration: Characters and Legends of Ancient Israel, 2009
- The wise men and their stories, 2006
- Hasidic celebration: portraits and legends, 2003
- All the torrents go to sea, 1996
- Against melancholy, 1996
- The city of fortune, 1992
- The forgotten, 1991 (1994).
- Testament of a murdered Jewish poet, 1980
- The Forest Gates, 1971
- The night, 1958 (2002).
- Trilogy of the night, 1958 (2008).
