La Ville de la chance (Cadre rouge)

by Elie Wiesel

Pourquoi Michael a-t-il tenu à revoir la ville natale où il a passé son enfance, alors qu'il a miraculeusement échappé aux horreurs de la guerre ? C'est ce que voudraient découvrir les policiers chargés de lui extorquer des aveux. Mais loin de se compromettre, Michael s'échappe dans la reconstruction d'un passé qu'il revit en même temps q'il le rêve. C'est ce voyage au bout de la folie que nous narre Elie Wiesel avec cette émotion contenue, cette économie de moyens, cette pureté que L'Aube et Le Jour nous avaient déjà révélées.



Né en Roumanie en 1928, rescapé d'Auschwitz, Élie Wiesel a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix en 1986. Philosophe et écrivain, il est notamment l'auteur de La Nuit et d' Un désir fou de danser.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicaragua's Miskito people.
He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and human rights causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Wiesel was awarded various prestigious awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He was a founding board member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and remained active in it throughout his life.