Day A Novel
“Day” by Elie Wiesel, published by Macmillan on March 21, 2006, is a translation of the author’s original title, previously known as “The Accident.” This novel serves as a powerful conclusion to Wiesel’s classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir “Night” and the novel “Dawn.” The story begins with a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor stepping into the path of an oncoming taxi in New York City, leading to a profound exploration of his thoughts, daydreams, and memories.
In “Day,” Wiesel delves into the complex themes surrounding survival and the impact of historical tragedy on individual and collective identity. The narrative grapples with the meaning of existence after the Holocaust, the effects on the Jewish community, and the struggle with faith amid overwhelming loss. This edition spans 109 pages and is presented in English, inviting readers to engage with Wiesel’s reflections on life, death, and the enduring questions that arise from such profound experiences.
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“Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man.” –The New York Times Book Review
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel’s original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author’s classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir Night and novel Dawn. “In Night it is the ‘I’ who speaks,” writes Wiesel. “In the other two, it is the ‘I’ who listens and questions.”
In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel’s masterful portrayal of one man’s exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel’s narrator. Torn between choosing life or death, Day again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel’s trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one’s religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination.
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