For the European Night of Museums, reading of "Night" by Bastien Bouillon at the Shoah Memorial

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Edgar Hilsenrath, discover an exceptional theatrical reading of his masterful novel, Night. This unique cultural event is organized as part of the European Night of Museums, highlighting this powerful work translated from German by Jörg Stickan and Sacha Zilberfarb for Éditions Le Tripode.

Night is the starting point of Edgar Hilsenrath’s (1926-2018) work, which draws inspiration from his own history and from the Ukrainian ghetto where he spent four years, between 1941 and 1945. In a mechanical, concise, hallucinated and almost cinematic style, the novel tells the story of Ranek who, over the days, tries to survive in the ghetto of Prokov. The characters are reduced to shadows... as if they had neither soul nor body.

Yet, in this permanent fog, elements of life abound: hunger, cold, scenes of hasty love or childbirth in the middle of the ghetto show that humanity remains. Censored in Germany for twenty years, Nuit is now considered the masterpiece of the German Jewish writer.

Read by Bastien Bouillon, comedian

Accompanied by Louise Bouillon Holt, musician and actress, Azeddine Benamara, musician and Tristan Chevalier, musician.

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