L’Aube

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L’Aube is the original French title of Elie Wiesel’s novel "Dawn," which explores a young Holocaust survivor’s moral struggle as he prepares to execute a British officer in postwar Palestine.

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L’Aube canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
novel
author Elie Wiesel
centralTheme guilt
moral responsibility
revenge
the ethics of killing
the legacy of the Holocaust
countryOfFirstPublication France
genre Holocaust literature
philosophical novel
psychological novel
languageOfTitle French
mainCharacter Elisha
narrativePerspective first-person narration
originalLanguage French
originalTitleOf Dawn
partOf Elie Wiesel’s early Holocaust-related fiction
plotSummary A young Holocaust survivor in a Zionist underground group struggles with his conscience as he prepares to execute a captured British officer at dawn.
protagonistBackground Holocaust survivor
relatedWorkByAuthor La Nuit
Le Jour
settingContext Mandatory Palestine
surface form: British Mandate of Palestine
settingLocation Palestine
settingPeriod post–World War II
translatedTitle Dawn

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Dawn originalTitle L’Aube
Night–Dawn–Day trilogy relatedWork L’Aube
this entity surface form: L'Aube