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Palestina, una calda sera d’autunno, un anno imprecisato tra la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale e il riconoscimento dello stato d’Israele. La resistenza ebraica lotta in Terra Santa contro il mandato britannico.
Gli inglesi impiccheranno all’alba il prigioniero David ben Moshe, e i clandestini ebrei hanno deciso che, nello stesso momento, risponderanno giustiziando a loro volta un ostaggio, il capitano John Dawson. L’ingrato compito tocca al giovanissimo Elisha, emigrato in Palestina dopo aver vissuto l’inferno dei lager nazisti e dopo aver perso la sua famiglia. Durante la lunga notte che precede l’esecuzione, la mente del ragazzo è visitata dai ricordi: Elisha vede suo padre, sua madre, il suo maestro e il bambino che lui era. Le loro ombre sono lì, nel nascondiglio della resistenza, non per condannare l’atto che sta per compiere, ma perché il dramma di Elisha è il dramma di un’intera civiltà e di tutto un popolo. Un popolo che, per sopravvivere, dovrà imparare l’odio e la guerra. Narrato in uno stile scarno, di straordinario potere allusivo e metaforico, il tragico passaggio dal ruolo di vittima a quello di carnefice si dilata fino ai confini di una più ampia riflessione: sul destino dell’uomo, sul come e sul quanto la presenza di Dio possa influire su tale destino.
- ISBN: 8823513766
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 112
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Dawn (The Night Trilogy, #2), Elie Wiesel Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy (Night, Dawn, and Day) describing Wiesel's experiences or thoughts during and after the Holocaust. Dawn is tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor. After the war, Elisha m Leggi tutto
L’UOMO ASSOMIGLIA A DIO SOLO NELLA CRUDELTÀ Sono 80 paginette scarse, e scarne, che però pesano come secoli e millenni, anche se il racconto è racchiuso nel giro di pochi anni (il protagonista ne ha diciotto). Un ebreo, in rappresentanza della sua gente, per sopravvivere deve imparare a odiare, e ucc Leggi tutto
Elie Wiesel, a world famous, highly honored (and sometimes-criticized ) Jewish writer and political activist, was born in Romania in 1928. The novella Dawn was his first work of fiction, published in 1960. Together with his famous memoir Night (1958, of the time he spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald c Leggi tutto
I am a huge fan of Elie Wiesel so was very happy with this book, since I read "Night" and saw his interview with Oprah Winfrey, I was hooked. Rarely has a such a short novel made me think as much as this one, usually its the 500 page sledgehammer that creeps into your dreams as you absorb it over a f Leggi tutto
When I first read Dawn , I found it a very compelling story that encased a perhaps insoluble moral dilemma; upon rereading it, I now find Elie Wiesel's novella a kind of parable attempting to relate the sometimes incalculable difference between good & evil. The brief book hadn't changed & I doubt tha Leggi tutto
Perhaps it's my fault for assuming that 'Dawn' was a follow up to Wiesel's brilliant memoir 'Night'. Or perhaps the book was just boring. Well written, but boring. In my view, 'Dawn' should not be packaged as the second part of a trilogy, because I did not get any sense of continuation; there was a l Leggi tutto
I'm sorry, this book pushed all the wrong buttons for me. It only evoked the resentment I feel for the modern state of Israel and its policies, and I simply couldn't shake off the feeling. Wiesel's point is that we are the sum total of everything that has ever happened to us and everyone who has eve Leggi tutto
3.5 This wasn't exactly like the first book-it only showed one part, and I just learned that it's fictional. I won't say that I agree with the beliefs of Elisha, but his feels and thoughts have been written elaborately. It has a deeper meaning to it-it's about killing our fellow human beings, the exc Leggi tutto
In Wiesel's first work of fiction, we spend a long and harrowing night with Elisha, an eighteen-year-old Holocaust survivor who was recruited as an Israeli terrorist to combat the British occupation of Palestine in order to fight for the creation of the Zionist state. When the sun rises, Elisha is d Leggi tutto
3 and 1/2 stars Though this is a novella, it's sometimes marketed as part of a trilogy with the nonfictional Night . I can see the relevance, as Wiesel himself says in this book's introduction that he imagined what might've happened if he'd been recruited after his Holocaust experiences to become a te Leggi tutto
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