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In 1960 Arthur Wang of Hill & Wang in New York—who Wiesel writes "believed in literature as others believe in God"—paid a $100 pro-forma advance and published that year a 116-page English translation by Stella Rodway as Night.
First published January 1, 1956. Book details & editions. About the author. Elie Wiesel. 321 books4,281 followers. Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
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Overview. Night by Elie Wiesel, published in 1958, is a powerful, largely autobiographical work that recounts the experiences of a teenager in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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Wiesel began writing after a ten-year self-imposed vow of silence about the Holocaust. Date of first publication Un di Velt Hot Geshvign was first published in 1956 in Buenos Aires. La Nuit was published in France in 1958, and the English translation was published in 1960.
Key Facts about Night. Title: Night; When/where written: 1955-1958, South America and France; Published: 1960; Genre: Memoir/Semi-fictional autobiography; Point-of-View: First-person; Setting: Europe during WWII; Climax: the death of Eliezer’s father, Shlomo; Antagonist: The SS soldiers and broader anti-Jewish laws and sentiment. Elie Wiesel ...
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Introduction of Night. The Night written by Elie Wiesel was published in 1960, creating ripples in the literary world. It presents a realistic picture of the Auschwitz concentration camps set up by the Nazis.
Eliezer survives, an empty shell of a man until April 11, 1945, the day that the American army liberates the camp. Previous section Sections 8 & 9 Next section Full Book Analysis. A short summary of Elie Wiesel's Night. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Night.
