Night

Night is Elie Wiesel's 1960 memoir based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, near the conclusion of World War II in Europe. Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own growing disgust with humanity in just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, which is reflected in the inversion of the parent-child relationship as his father deteriorates to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful, teenage caregiver.

Wiesel was 16 when the United States Army liberated Buchenwald in April 1945, too late for his father, who died after a beating as Wiesel lay silently on the bunk above for fear of being beaten as well. After the war, he relocated to Paris and created an 862-page book in Yiddish describing his experiences, which was later published in Argentina as the 245-page Un di velt hot geshvign ("And the World Remained Silent"). François Mauriac, a novelist, assisted him in finding a French publisher. In 1958, Les Éditions de Minuit released La Nuit, a 178-page translation, and Hill & Wang in New York published Night, a 116-page translation, in 1960.

Detailed information:

Author: Elie Wiesel
Language: English
English translators: Stella Rodway for Hill & Wang, 1960

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