A Mad Desire to Dance
By Elie Wiesel
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Doriel Waldman, a Holocaust survivor living alone in New York, believes he may be possessed by a dybbuk. He narrates this 2006 novel by Elie Wiesel. He begins seeing a psychoanalyst, Thérèse Goldschmidt, and in their sessions tells of a childhood in hiding, of parents lost in the war, of a failed love, and of his struggle to find meaning, faith and joy.
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