by Elie Wiesel · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020859165
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«Un désir fou de danser» is the historical and psychological novel by Elie Wiesel, published by Seuil in paperback (329 pages, in French).
Doriel lives alone in New York and believes he is possessed by a dybbuk, a wandering soul from Jewish tradition. In sessions with his psychoanalyst, he tries to free himself from an excess of memory that torments him; this inner journey goes back to his exile and the horrors of the 20th century, and suggests that only love can heal the wounds of the soul.
Published on April 20, 2006, it belongs to Seuil's Cadre rouge collection; the subtitle of the work is «roman».
For readers interested in the memory of the Holocaust and in Elie Wiesel's narrative work.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.
