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La Danza Della Memoria (2008)

by Elie Wiesel(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8811665965 (ISBN13: 9788811665960)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Garzanti

review 1: It was my second time reading Wiesel's book; the first one was Night. During my reading, I could totally indulge myself into the story though I'm neither Jewish nor one having identical experience. I am fascinated by the way he narrates as a madman. The narrator has done a good job revealing his story in a "mad" way. The story was a bit confusing at first, but as the narration goes on, everything starts to come to light bit by bit, which is especially amazing to me as if I was Doriel Waldman, who tries (in a mad way, of course) to open his heart to Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt. The ring plot structure gradually explains what confused me at first - what it is about his mother that haunts Doriel, how he can have the abundant financial support, why he addresses to his granddaugh... moreter in the beginning if he has never been married till 60, and so on. At the end, everything is clear, which I think is a great relief to Doriel as well as to me.
review 2: I made a drastic decision with this one: I stopped reading and tossed it aside.Now, that's something I usually don't do. Even if I don't like a novel, I seem to find the stamina to push through.I just couldn't go on with this one. There's nothing that appeals to me. At. All.During my read I hit a wall, three times. I paused my reading, and read another book, just to get going again.Today I returned to the book for a fourth time. Determined to push it to end.After some 20 pages, every joy I find in reading was slowly withering. After 25 pages I was questioning the very act of reading itself. (I'm a literary historian. My whole life revolves around reading, so you can only guess my state of mind when I start to doubt the virtues of reading)After 30 pages, I was ready to sell my soul to the devil if I just never had to read another book again.After 35 pages, I decided to leave A Mad Desire to Dance for ever. It was either that, or stabbing my eyes out.I chose the first, and I'm off to rekindle my love for literature.You might have figured it out by now, but this one is really not my cup of tea. We meet with the protagonist and his quest for mental health. He's off to a therapist, and is going to tell his story. Well... More or less. Fragments of texts are told devoid of any chronology. Madness is thematized throughout the novel, even in its form. Yes, very cute and clever and all, but it doesn't really make up for an engaging read.Even the therapist herself is entering the discourse of madness. Yes, really cute. Really Clever. Not a great story.So, all in all, I must say, this book is very cute and very clever. But in the end, it makes up for nothing.The self-absorbed characters and the self-absorbed text repelled me on every level. There's nothing, absolutely nothing, in this book that appeals to me.If you'd like to read a book about jewishness, in a therapeutical setting, go and read Philip Roth's 'Portnoy's Complaint'. I beg of you, run away from this one before it sucks every joie de lire out of you. less

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