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02755aam a2200361 i 4500 001 D531F354B0B711EC872AADB14EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220331010010 008 190924t20202020enk b 000 e eng d 010 $a 2020376909 020 $a 1784108901 020 $a 9781784108908 035 $a (OCoLC)1127092775 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d YDX $d UAB $d OCLCF $d DLC $d BDX $d EUM $d FIE $d OCLCQ $d GYG $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6060.O64 $b F67 2020 082 04 $a 824/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Josipovici, Gabriel, $d 1940- $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 10 $a Forgetting / $c Gabriel Josipovici. 264 1 $a Manchester : $b Little Island Press in collaboration with Carcanet, $c 2020. 300 $a 143 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t Letting go. $t The fear of forgetting -- $t Only he who forgets remembers -- $t 'Remember Kosovo!' 'Remember Auschwitz!' -- $t Reticence and repression -- $t Nietzsche and the need for sleep -- $g Interlude: $t An act of destruction -- $t The burial of the dead (1) -- $t Tombstones, inscriptions -- $t 'Who is the man sitting on General Gordon?' -- $t Memorial monuments -- $g Interlude: $t I examine a photograph in a newspaper -- $t The burial of the dead (2) -- $t Hauntings -- $t Letting go. 520 $a 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. -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Essays. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919922 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220331010226.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D531F354B0B711EC872AADB14EECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search