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A Mad Desire to Dance
(Audio, 2009)
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Author: Elie Wiesel
Doriel Waldman is a Polish Jew, born in 1936, who survived the war with his parents, only to lose th...
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Synopsis
Doriel Waldman is a Polish Jew, born in 1936, who survived the war with his parents, only to lose them to a car accident a few years afterwards. Fifty years later, he has immersed himself in the study of Judaism, which convinces him that his soul has been devoured by a "dybbuk," a possessing spirit escaped from the gates of Hell. Believing he needs to determine the dybbuk's purpose in order to free himself, he begins undergoing psychotherapy with Dr. Therese Goldschmidt, and their dialogue of dreams and secrets gradually reveals a haunting trauma from Doriel's past.
| Size | | Height: | 6.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Interactions between a patient and his therapist elucidate the human condition in the latest from Nobel Prize winner Wiesel. ...Philosophy meets psychology in this profound, often poetic novel." (starred review)
(01/01/2009)
"Wiesel's ferocious diatribe against the effects of meaningless suffering is relentless, humorless, often abstract, but its obduracy must be weighed against his unarguable experience. Other writers may have tackled aspects of this material more gracefully, with greater poetic sensitivity, but none could claim to be more committed than Wiesel, whose life and work can seem one indivisible act of will."
(02/17/2009)
"The book's style and themes will be familiar to those acquainted with his previous fiction...yet A MAD DESIRE TO DANCE shows the sensibility of a literary wanderer who has not finished searching for answers to his original anguished questions."
(03/24/2009)
"Elie Wiesel once more confirms his influence as a master storyteller who can weave an intricate narrative into a complex portrait of a man at once obliterated and remade."
(03/08/2009)
"This novel is filled with gorgeous prose. In his moments of madness Doriel speaks nonsense that is at times reminiscent of the riddling maxims of Shakespeare's clowns."
(03/25/2009)
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