Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein

While Sophie Segal, one of Jew­ish Book Council’s interns this sum­mer, was research­ing her essay on the lega­cies of the late Nov­el lau­re­ates Imre Kertész and Elie Wiesel, I came across some strik­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tions of Wiesel’s Night tril­o­gy, dreamed up by inde­pen­dent graph­ic designers:

Def­i­nite­ly a strong depar­ture from the stan­dard paper­back edi­tion. What do these aes­thet­ics con­tribute to the books they cov­er, or does an artis­tic ele­ment some­how detract from the work as Wiesel intend­ed? I’m curi­ous to hear oth­er read­ers’ thoughts on this — please chime in using the com­ments sec­tion below!

Relat­ed Content:

• Elie Wiesel Read­ing List
• Nicholas Kul­ish: ​“What’s a Nazi?”
• Eric Gre­it­ens: The Strength of Judaism. The Courage of Social Justice.