DANGER OF SILENCE IN THE KINGDOM OF “NIGHT”

Аннотация

The article deals with specific features of the novel "Night" by American Jewish novelist Elie Wiesel, which illustrates the terrible World War II era and the sufferings of the Jewish people, their extermination and the problem of the Holocaust. The article aims to reaffirm the importance of the novel "Night" by using three literary approaches – historical, biographical and social. The biographical approach is taken for the analysis to identify the link between the work and the author, who builds a story on the basis of his own memories and real life experience. Furthermore, the socio-historical problems highlighted in the novel are very relevant, since they still exist in modern societies in one or another form. The article reflects how the novel encompasses morality, dignity, humanity issues and at the same time reveals the author’s attitude to the indifference of some world communities regarding cruelty and evading responsibility for anti-human crimes along with how to avoid them in the near future.