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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Night" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1158292300m/1617.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Night</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1049.Elie_Wiesel">Elie Wiesel</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2698684?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars I might too stingy in giving stars for this book. A friend of mind recommended the book to me. My rating for this book doesn't mean that I discredited the book or dislike it. The book is good, and i love memoirs, especially those slice of life true story with past experiences, no matter if it's good or bad or worse experiences.
 
 Weeks after i finished "Night", I got a dvd of movie called "Fateless", the movie is really good, but, the story very similar to Wiesel's "Night", I thought the movie was an adaptation from Wiesel's book, or the book just inspired the movie maker, but I was wrong. 
 
 Fateless or Fatelessness (Hungarian: Sorstalanság, lit. "Fatelessness") is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 15-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. 
 
 Wiesel's "Night", come up with trilogy; Night - Dawn - Day. Kertesz's "Fateless" got the same idea of trilogy; Fateless - Fiasco - Kaddish. Both authors are the winner of Nobel Prize (Night in 1986 and Fateless in 2002, but Fateless's first published was in 1975).
 
 I'm not doubting the truth or the honesty of Wiesel's memoir about the holocaust, same as Kertesz's, but the similarity between two quite distracting me, even though I haven't read Kertesz's book yet, instead, I've watched the movie and it's good.
 
 Is it possible that both authors were in the same camp during the holocaust, or the two stories are purely coincidental? and then both of them done some changes here and there, to be less obvious. One claimed the book as memoir, the other claimed as semi-autobiographical etc.
 
 Well, i'm just blindly guessing... I don't know for sure.
 Maybe I need to read through again the details regarding these 2 authors, hopefully i could find the differences between them, it might could change my ratings... And I like both stories...
 
 Anyone can help me?
 
 Fateless:
 the book: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148869.Fateless">http://www.goodreads.com/book/...</a>
 the movie: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367082/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...</a>
 the clip: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_tP4WUiDw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...</a>
 
 
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I might too stingy in giving stars for this book. A friend of mind recommended the book to me. My rating for this book doesn't mean that I discredited the book or dislike it. The book is good, and i love memoirs, especially those slice of life true story with past experiences, no matter if it's good or bad or worse experiences.

Weeks after i finished "Night", I got a dvd of movie called "Fateless", the movie is really good, but, the story very similar to Wiesel's "Night", I thought the movie was an adaptation from Wiesel's book, or the book just inspired the movie maker, but I was wrong.

Fateless or Fatelessness (Hungarian: Sorstalanság, lit. "Fatelessness") is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 15-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

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message 1: by Eliza (last edited 01/29/2008 08:28PM)

01/29/2008 08:25PM

I have to say I'm a little confused. The Holocaust happened to millions of people...and their stories are no doubt very similar. Why not these two? Incidentally Elie Wiesel's book was originally published in France in 1958. So really, this story was published first.