Brown uses the phrase “such depressing subject matter” more than once
in the preface. He’s absolutely right- it is- in fact, I truly can’t
think of any subject matter that is more depressing, yet he goes on to
make such an important point, “Night remains a book we must read and
reread if we are to accept responsibility for our past and to learn
from that past for the sake of our future.” We are fortunate indeed
that Elie Wiesel broke his ten year silence after his liberation from
the concentration camps of World War II, as Brown concludes: “…between
us and the fiery furnaces where they burned babies alive stands the
presence of Elie Wiesel; his presence casts a shadow from within which
we can see, in dimmest outline, the reality he saw and touched and
tasted directly….with his help we can recapture enough of that reality
so that it will never be repeated.”
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