ELIE WIESEL: MEMORY DOES NOT FORGIVE: NIGHT
ELIE WIESEL: MEMORY DOES NOT FORGIVE: NIGHT

Summary/Abstract: This article makes a brief presentation of the role of memory in Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night. Deported at an age when life should be about discovering who we are, Wiesel finds himself in Auschwitz, a place where people are reduced to simple numbers and where humanity loses all its value. However, Wiesel assumes the role of a narrator of this horrific experience as a tribute brought to the millions of silent victims. Thus, memory gets a liberating value, becoming a testimony and a lesson by giving voice to the unheard and making the world witness to the darkest page of modern history, so that things like this should never happen again.” Never again” is the deep message of Wiesel’s account in which memory plays an essential part.

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