Is Night by Elie Wiesel fiction or true?

Question

I'm planning on reading it.

Answer 1

"Night" is an excellent narrative of Elie Wiesel's experiences as a prisoner in German concentration camps during World War II. If you're planning on reading "Night," you might also want to consider reading "Dawn" and "Day" (also published as "The Accident"). Together, all three books create one story about his experiences during and after the Holocaust. However, each can be read seperately as individual books and I would highly recommend them.

Answer 2

Night is a fantastic Holocaust memoir. Whether you believe it or not, you would enjoy the book.

When you ask whether a book or a film or any art is "true," you are asking a big thing, indeed. The translation of memory into art necessarily requires embellishment. Wiesel was trying to relate his experiences and feelings about the Holocaust, and he does this quite well.

I think the majority of readers would call his memoir "true," because we believe that the Holocaust represents the absolute worst of humanity. We also trust Wiesel because he has the tattoos to prove he was a concentration camp prisoner. And we believe him because he tells his story with such urgency and conviction that the force of his writing demands that it be read as truth.

Answer 3

In the Library of Congress "Night" is classified according to the Dewey Decimal System as Fiction. However, in Israel there is no such category as Fiction, the novel/novella is designated as Imaginative Literature.

Answer 4

yep its a memoir- a portion of his life. complete non-fiction. its great, btw, a really good read

Answer 5

true


i read it for school its really good

Answer 6

true