A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all.
"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces,
to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory
is no life at all. . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason,
our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. "
Luis Bunuel, Memoirs
""It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen
remarked. "
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
This intriguing anthology introduces us to arguments and
experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the
subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives and our history
together. With an introduction by A.S. Byatt, the book is arranged
in themed sections, and includes specially commissioned essays by
writers with expertise in different fields from Memory and
Evolution by Patrick Bateson to Memory and Forgetting by the
biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the
brain, by Steven Rose. The fascinating extracts move through the
ages of Plato and Aristotle to Montaigne and Shakespeare, Voltaire
and Hume, Wordsworth and Proust, Freud and Virginia Woolf, Jorge
Luis Borges, W.G. Sebald and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating and
provocative and often profoundly moving, Memory is a book to
treasure -- and remember.
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