A Mad Desire to Dance
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now in paperback, Wiesel's newest novel "reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness."--"Le Monde des Livres" A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound...
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Now in paperback, Wiesel's newest novel "reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness."--"Le Monde des Livres"
A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die soon after in France in an accident, together with his father. Doriel was a hidden child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books. Doriel's parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk.
Surrounded by ghosts, spurred on by demons, Doriel finally turns to Dr. Therese Goldschmidt, a psychoanalyst who finds herself particularly intrigued by her patient. The two enter into an uneasy relationship based on exchange: of dreams, histories, and secrets. And despite Doriel's initial resistance, Dr. Goldschmidt helps bring him to a crossroads--and to a shocking denouement.
"In its own high-stepping yet paradoxically heart-wracking way, [Wiesel's novel] can most assuredly be considered beautiful (almost beyond belief)."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer "
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Now in paperback, Wiesel s newest novel reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness. Le Monde des Livres A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die soon after in France in an accident, together with his father. Doriel was a hidden child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books. Doriel s parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk.
Surrounded by ghosts, spurred on by demons, Doriel finally turns to Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt, a psychoanalyst who finds herself particularly intrigued by her patient. The two enter into an uneasy relationship based on exchange: of dreams, histories, and secrets. And despite Doriel s initial resistance, Dr. Goldschmidt helps bring him to a crossroads and to a shocking denouement.
In its own high-stepping yet paradoxically heart-wracking way, [Wiesel s novel] can most assuredly be considered beautiful (almost beyond belief). The Philadelphia Inquirer
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She has dark eyes and the smile of a frightened child. I searched for her all my life. Was it she who saved me from the silent death that characterizes resignation to solitude? And from madness in its terminal phase, terminal as we refer to cancer when incurable? Yes, the kind of madness in which one can find refuge, if not salvation?Madness is what I ll talk to you about madness burdened with memories and with eyes like everyone else s, though in my story the eyes are like those of a smiling child trembling with fear.You ll ask: Is a madman who knows he s mad really mad? Or: In a mad world, isn t the madman who is aware of his madness the only sane person? But let s not rush ahead. If you had to describe a madman, how would you portray him? As a marblefaced stranger? Smiling but without joy, his nerves on edge; when he goes into a trance, his limbs move about and all his thoughts collide; time and again, he has electrical discharges, not in his brain but in his soul. Do you like this portrait? Let s continue. How can we talk about madness except by using the specific language of those who carry it within themselves? What if I told you that within each of us, whether in good health or bad, there is a hidden zone, a secret region that opens out onto madness? One misstep, one unfortunate blow of fate, is enough to make us slip or flounder with no hope of ever rising up again. Careless mistakes, an impaired memory or errors of judgment, can provoke a series of falls. It then becomes impossible to make ourselves understood by those we call rather foolishly kindred souls. If you will not grant me this, I will have a serious problem, but you must not feel sorry for me. Tears sometimes leave furrows, but never very deep ones in any case, not deep enough. There, this is what you have to know for a start.That said, since I m eager to tell you everything, you should know that I ll be telling you this story without any concern for chronology. You ll be made to discover many
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different periods of time and many different places in a haphazard fashion. What can I say? The madman s time is not always the same as theso-called normal man s.For instance, let s begin this narrative five years ago, in the office of Thérèse Goldschmidt, a healer of souls, well paid I ll tell you how well later thanks to her vast knowledge. She expects to prod me into knowing the dark, innermost recesses of my ego, in order to help me live with myself without my dybbuk, but that s an assumption to which I plan to return. Later on I ll talk to you about Thérèse; I ll talk about her at length. Inevitable Thérèse, there is no way around her. She s the one who made me talk. It s her profession. She spends her life probing the unconscious that strongbox and trash bin of knowledge and experience, those subterranean archives that canand must be deciphered and asking childish or harebrained questions. And in my case, these questions summoned not answers but stories.Why do people make fun of madmen? Because they upset people? Didn t Molière mock the hypochondriac? Doesn t the man who believes he is ill need treatment? Am I way off the beam? I don t think I m completely irrational. Is being mad being disabled? Can one speak of a gana mad desire to dance grened mind, of thought beaten to death, of a mutilated, damned soul? Can one be mad in happiness as in misfortune? Can someone take vows of madness as one takes religious vows, or devotes one s life to poetry? Can a person slip breathlessly into madness with a slow, muffled tread, as if to avoid disturbing some secret demon feigning absence or asceticism? At times I m afraid of shutting my eyes, for I see an unreal world with its dead. I open them again and fear has not left me. Madness may just b
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Autoren-Porträt von Elie Wiesel
ELIE WIESEL was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elie Wiesel
- 2010, 288 Seiten, Maße: 11,5 x 21,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Catherine Temerson
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0805212124
- ISBN-13: 9780805212129
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for A Mad Desire to DanceA soaring explanation of a soul devastated by horrorism in a world off its rocker, A Mad Desire to Dance cannot be called comfy, not by a long shot. But in its own highstepping yet paradoxically heart-wracking way, it can most assuredly be considered beautiful (almost beyond belief).
-Judith Fitzgerald, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Tales in A Mad Desire to Dance just pour out of the author like the Talmudic ma ayan hamitgaber, the wellspring that never runs dry . . . Wiesel proves again that he is a master storyteller who can weave a complex tapestry of plots into an intricately poignant human portrait.
-Ari L. Goldman, Moment magazine
A Mad Desire to Dance is the novel Elie Wiesel was born or more accurately, survived to write . . . There are many truths buried in this book; that you have to work a little harder, dig a little deeper, to find them makes the experience all the more meaningful.
-Curt Schleier, Milwaulkee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
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.
-M.E. Collins, Chicago Sun-Times
Austerely written and . . . thought-provoking.
-Mike Peed, The New York Times Book Review
Elie Wiesel continues to be the ultimate witness to history s worst enormity, and its fiercest moral voice for remembrance . . . [A Mad Desire to Dance] takes patience and close reading, but those who stay with it will derive a significant level of satisfaction . . . from the seemingly simple yet stirring reminder that love can soothe, even if it cannot completely heal, the most horrendous wounds.
-Gerald Sorin, Haaretz
Artfully developed . . . Wiesel is a master storyteller.
-Alvin H. Rosenfeld, The New Leader
Alternately rough and tender . . . A Mad Desire to Dance begins ominously and ends beautifully . . . No matter if your faith lies with science,
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religion, or both, A Mad Desire to Dance offers a tantalizing conversion experience for the philosopher in you.
-Andrew Burstein, The Baton Rouge Advocate
Vivid . . . This novel is filled with gorgeous prose.
-Kevin O Kelly, The Boston Globe
A Mad Desire to Dance shows the sensibility of a literary wanderer who has not finished searching for answers to his original anguished questions . . . A reader willing to navigate the thickets will find rewards. The novel s . . . satisfactions lie in a sense of shared responsibility between teller and listener, a confidential yet far-reaching partnership that began four decades ago with Night.
-Donna Rifkind, The Washington Post
The novel . . . ends on an affirmative note, a triumph of life s dance of desire over the madness that is a living death. Philosophy meets psychology in this profound, often poetic novel.
-Starred review, Kirkus
It is once again a survivor s memories . . . that will rivet readers . . . The terse personal vignettes are gripping . . . The secrets surprise you to the end.
-Booklist
Difficult but powerful . . . Wiesel handles the situation expertly, and . . . a multilayered narrative emerges: the journey through sadness and toward redemption; a meditation on the hand dealt to Holocaust survivors; and a valuable parable on the wages of human trauma. While the novel is not always easy sledding, there are ample rewards intellectual and visceral for the willing reader.
-Publishers Weekly
And praise from France for A Mad Desire to Dance
A Mad Desire to Dance reminds us, with force, that Wiesel s writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found here a startling freshness.
-Le Monde des Livres
A genuine adventure that enriches the reader.
-L Eclaireur
A Mad Desire to Dance [is] an interior adventure driven by the need to know and the certitude that only love can heal our most intimate wounds.
-France Culture
-Andrew Burstein, The Baton Rouge Advocate
Vivid . . . This novel is filled with gorgeous prose.
-Kevin O Kelly, The Boston Globe
A Mad Desire to Dance shows the sensibility of a literary wanderer who has not finished searching for answers to his original anguished questions . . . A reader willing to navigate the thickets will find rewards. The novel s . . . satisfactions lie in a sense of shared responsibility between teller and listener, a confidential yet far-reaching partnership that began four decades ago with Night.
-Donna Rifkind, The Washington Post
The novel . . . ends on an affirmative note, a triumph of life s dance of desire over the madness that is a living death. Philosophy meets psychology in this profound, often poetic novel.
-Starred review, Kirkus
It is once again a survivor s memories . . . that will rivet readers . . . The terse personal vignettes are gripping . . . The secrets surprise you to the end.
-Booklist
Difficult but powerful . . . Wiesel handles the situation expertly, and . . . a multilayered narrative emerges: the journey through sadness and toward redemption; a meditation on the hand dealt to Holocaust survivors; and a valuable parable on the wages of human trauma. While the novel is not always easy sledding, there are ample rewards intellectual and visceral for the willing reader.
-Publishers Weekly
And praise from France for A Mad Desire to Dance
A Mad Desire to Dance reminds us, with force, that Wiesel s writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found here a startling freshness.
-Le Monde des Livres
A genuine adventure that enriches the reader.
-L Eclaireur
A Mad Desire to Dance [is] an interior adventure driven by the need to know and the certitude that only love can heal our most intimate wounds.
-France Culture
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