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> Paru le : 07.04.2020
Nous ouvrons ici, alors que Mémoires en jeu atteint son huitième numéro et entame sa troisième année, une rubrique dans laquelle seront régulièrement abordés les rapports de la pensée critique à ce phénomène, cette institution et ce discours que l’on désigne généralement... Suite
> Paru le : 07.04.2020
Le refus a toujours constitué un rôle essentiel. Les saints, les ermites, mais aussi les intellectuels, le petit nombre d’hommes qui ont fait l’Histoire sont ceux qui ont dit non, et non les courtisans et les valets des cardinaux. » Cette citation... Suite
> Paru le : 07.04.2020
Habib Bourguiba, who is the great emblematic symbol of the Tunisian Nation memory, made national memory serve as a tool to legitimate his regime and personal power. Visual memory of the anticolonial struggle is first centered on his very person and then... Suite
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Following the model of documentary art, archivary art designates a certain way to use the archives in contemporary art. A way that ends in shaping the works of art according to archival style. In this process, also visible in contemporary literature, memory... Suite
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The barracks of Dossin were a transit camp like Westerbork in the Netherlands and Drancy in France. Between July 1942 and September 1944, 25 274 Jews and 354 Gypsies were rounded up and transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only about 5 % of them... Suite
> Paru le : 07.04.2020
How could the 2011 Utøya massacre in Norway be remembered? « Utøya » actually encompasses two events: the killing of 69 young girls and boys, members of the Workers’ Youth League, on the island, and the bombings in Oslo, who occurred just... Suite
> Paru le : 07.04.2020
Il est choquant que Philip Roth soit mort ! Quelques mois seulement avant sa disparition, un dernier échange à propos de ma notice sur lui dans le Dictionary of Literary Biography m’avait permis de profiter de ses remarques, d’une grande rigueur comme... Suite
> Paru le : 07.04.2020
Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 in New York. He left behind not only an imposing body of work, including twenty-six novels, but also a remarkable presence in the literary world of North America and globally. Roth’s corpus is certainly not... Suite
> Paru le : 28.10.2019
Rome is the city of excessive memory. Places linked with antiquity, art history or the Church obviously attract most of the tourists. However, when I visit the eternal city in May 2018, I am intent on finding remains of the Ventennio, the... Suite
> Paru le : 09.07.2019
Elena Curti, 95 years, is the last surviving person of the convoy that drove Mussolini and many high ranking fascists from Milan towards the Swiss border at the end of April 1945. The caravan was halted by partisans and the Duce himself... Suite
