Looking at the breadth of Joan Didion’s writing, from journalism,
essays, fiction, memoir and screen plays, it may appear that there
is no unifying thread, but Matthew R. McLennan argues that ‘the
ethics of memory’ – the question of which norms should guide
public and private remembrance – offers a promising vision of
what is most characteristic and salient in Didion’s works. By
framing her universe as indifferent and essentially precarious,
McLennan demonstrates how this outlook guides Didion’s
reflections on key themes linked to memory: namely witnessing and
grieving, nostalgia, and the paradoxically amnesiac qualities of
our increasingly archived public life that she explored in famous
texts like Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Year of Magical
Thinking and Salvador. McLennan moves beyond the interpretive value
of such an approach and frames Didion as a serious, iconoclastic
philosopher of time and memory. Through her encounters with the
past, the writer is shown to offer lessons for the future in an
increasingly perilous and unsettled world.
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