Les larmes de la mémoire, un déchirement infini vu par les yeux d’Élie Wiesel

Abstract

The aim of this article is to consider the perfect complementarity and the heterogeneous structure of two of Elie Wiesel’s works, which formulate a constant questioning on the fault of the uprooted man: L’Oublié, published by Éditions du Seuil in 1989 and Un désir fou de danser, a novel published by the same editions in 2006. In this works, the Romanian author Elie Wiesel gives his voice to characters constantly persecuted by demons from their past. Hyper lucid and attentive to the noise of his time, Wiesel celebrates, in his novels, a present loaded with memories so as not to abdicate before the sore Jewish memory that seems to haunt him. Madness, freedom, Judaic mysticism, an intimate understanding of Kabbalah, the memory of suffering are all themes that nourish Élie Wiesel and testify to his almost exclusive interest in the open wounds of Jewish history.