It remains unclear how much of Night is memoir. Translated into 30 languages, the book ranks as one of the bedrocks of Holocaust literature. 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. The novelist François Mauriac helped him find a French publisher. He moved to Paris after the war and in 1954 completed an 862-page manuscript in Yiddish about his experiences, published in Argentina as the 245-page Un di velt hot geshvign ('And the World Remained Silent'). 'Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.' Wiesel was 16 when Buchenwald was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945, too late for his father, who died after a beating while Wiesel lay silently on the bunk above for fear of being beaten too. 'Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends', a kapo tells him. Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever.' In Night everything is inverted, every value destroyed. 'If only I could get rid of this dead weight. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the parent–child relationship as his father deteriorates to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful, teenage caregiver.

Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.

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