"A people who forget their past are condemned to relive
it": we do not really know who said this sentence, attributed sometimes to Winston Churchill, sometimes to George Santayana.
It has in any case become the commonplace of our time, hammered out of school textbooks into official speeches.
All obsessed with yesterday's crimes, we fail to see or misinterpret new threats.
Most often uneducated about the history of our country, we chew over slogans learned at school about some great dark periods of the past.
This is the whole purpose of Maroun Eddé's book,
La Mémoire guilty
(Books), to unravel the paradoxes of a society that is characterized both by a refusal of transmission and an obsession with memory.
The 23-year-old normalien signs an intelligent and nuanced first book on this omnipresent question.
The Manichean model of war
Napoleon, Shoah, Algerian war, Rwandan genocide: the memory whirlwind of the quinquennium which is ending is enough to make you dizzy.
On both sides of the Atlantic...
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