''Twilight'', originally published in 1988 in French as ''Le crépuscule, au loin'', is a

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel ''Eliezer Vizel''; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel b ...

. ''Twilight'' is the fictional story of a

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

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

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

. Interwoven with these accounts are Raphael's own memories of his life before and during the Holocaust.ALONG THE EDGE OF ANNIHILATION 0295803371- Page 283 ""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"

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1988 American novels Novels about the aftermath of the Holocaust Personal accounts of the Holocaust Novels by Elie Wiesel {{1980s-Holocaust-novel-stub