Twilight (Wiesel novel)
First US edition | |
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Summit Books (US) |
Twilight, originally published in 1988 in French as Le crépuscule, au loin, is a novel by Elie Wiesel. Twilight is the fictional story of a Holocaust survivor named Raphael Lipkin who is now a psychologist living in the United States of America. He visits a psychiatric ward called "The Mountain Clinic," where he interviews several psychiatric patients who believe themselves to be various characters from the Hebrew Bible. Interwoven with these accounts are Raphael's own memories of his life before and during the Holocaust, accounts of Raphael's brothers' lives during the Holocaust, and Raphael's memories of a Bricha agent named Pedro.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
References
- ^ Patterson, David; Berger, Alan L.; Cargas, Sarita, eds. (2002). Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature. Oryx Holocaust series. Westport, Conn: Oryx Press (published March 30, 2002). p. 216. ISBN 978-1-57356-257-7.
Titled Twilight, the novel suggests a return to some of the themes in Night, Dawn, and The Accident. It also contains an important character whose voice played a highly significant role in The Town Beyond the Wall: Pedro. In both novels, Pedro is closely connected to the madman and the ways in which the madman challenges our truths.
- ^ Lambert, Carole J. (2006). Is God man's friend? theodicy and friendship in Elie Wiesel's novels. New York Bern Frankfurt am Main Berlin: Lang. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8204-7926-2.
Some of Heschel's perspectives on God may be found in Wiesel's Twilight.
- ^ Patterson, David, ed. (2015). The shriek of silence: a phenomenology of the Holocaust novel. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-6149-5.
...anatorium patient in Wiesel's Twilight. "His face appeared before me. . . .
- ^ Bauckham, Richard (January 6, 1995). Theology of Jürgen Moltmann (published 1995). p. 91. ISBN 9780567251435.
Appendix to Chapter Four: Elie Wiesel's Twilight: After this chapter was first written, Wiesel published a novel which contains his most mature reflections on the themes of theodicy which he first tackled in Night. The French title Le Crépuseule...
- ^ Patterson, David (1998). Sun turned to darkness: memory and recovery in the Holocaust memoir. Religion, theology, and the Holocaust (1st ed.). Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-8156-0530-0.
And so one sees that couched in these texts of memory is the outcry of the Rav condemned to death in Elie Wiesel's Twilight: "Here is my prayer. God of Israel: Listen to the people of Israel!" (1987, 34). When people turn their backs on their...
- ^ Patterson, David (April 1, 1999). Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary. University of Washington Press. p. 283. ISBN 9780295803371.
When I killed my brother," says Cain in Elie Wiesel's Twilight, "it was really Him I wanted to kill. And He knows it. Any fool knows that whoever kills, kills God" (58). 5