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Les Éditions de Minuit published 178 pages as La Nuit in 1958, and in 1960 Hill & Wang in New York published a 116-page translation as Night. Translated into 30 languages, the book ranks as one of the bedrocks of Holocaust literature. It remains unclear how much of Night is memoir. Wiesel called it his deposition, but scholars have had ...
- Elie Wiesel
- 1960: Night. New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages.
Other articles where Night is discussed: Elie Wiesel: …Wiesel’s first book, in Yiddish, Un di velt hot geshvign (1956; “And the World Has Remained Silent”), abridged as La Nuit (1958; Night), a memoir of a young boy’s spiritual reaction to Auschwitz. It is considered by some critics to be the most powerful literary expression of the Holocaust. His…
The work later evolved into the much-shorter French publication La Nuit, which was then translated into English as Night. Time and place written Mid-1950s, Paris. 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 ...
Jan 16, 2006 · Wiesel later translated the text into French. He called it, more simply and symbolically, Night (La Nuit), and sent it to Mauriac, who helped Wiesel find a publisher (the literary and small publishing house Les Editions de Minuit) and wrote its Preface.
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NIGHT (La Nuit) Memoir by Elie Wiesel, 1958. Elie Wiesel's Night (1958, La Nuit) was one of the earliest and most renowned of the Holocaust memoirs.It is characterized by a dramatic style and swiftness of action that has made it a popular book in high school as well as in college literature and history courses.
The text was edited down to 178 pages and published as La Nuit, with a preface by François Mauriac. Wiesel's New York agent, encountered the same difficulty finding a publisher in the United States. In 1960, Hill & Wang in New York published an even smaller 116-page English translation as Night .
After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.
