We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking
its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he
who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural
shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance at fixed
times and places, to our own Western world where the lack of such
mechanisms leads to a fear of forgetting, to what Nietzsche
diagnosed as an unhealthy sleeplessness that infects every aspect
of our culture. Moving from the fear of Alzheimer's to invocations
of 'Remember the Holocaust' and 'Remember Kosovo' by unscrupulous
demagogues, from the burial rituals of rural societies to the
Berlin and Vienna Holocaust Memorials, from eighteenth-century
disquiet about the role of tombs and inscriptions to the late poems
of Wallace Stevens, Josipovici has produced, in characteristic
style, a small book with a very big punch. Gabriel Josipovici's
novel The Cemetery in Barnes (2018) was shortlisted for the 2018
Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Republic of
Consciousness Prize.
General
| Imprint: |
Little Island Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
2020 |
| Authors: |
Gabriel Josipovici
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
160 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78410-890-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-78410-890-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781784108908 |
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