Night
Elie Wiesel, 1956
A teenage Talmud student watches his town become a ghetto, then a sealed cattle car, and asks what prayer is for when the world goes silent.
Elie Wiesel
Wiesel's first version of Night was in Yiddish, Un di Velt Hot Geshvign, published in Buenos Aires in 1956; the French Night was a much shorter recasting.
Feels like death, dread and grief.
What the night sky becomes when the fire is inside you.
NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes. Books by Elie Wiesel
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