Contents

Preface

5

i The Fear of Forgetting

9

ii Only He Who Forgets Remembers

23

iii ‘Remember Kosovo!’ ‘Remember Auschwitz!’ 33 iv Reticence and Repression 39 v Nietzsche and the Need for Sleep 51 Interlude: An Act of Destruction 61 vi The Burial of the Dead (1) 65 vii Tombstones, Inscriptions 75 viii ‘Who is the Man Sitting on General Gordon?’ 91 ix Memorial Monuments 99 Interlude: I Examine a Photograph in a Newspaper 117 x The Burial of the Dead (2) 119 xi Hauntings 127 xii Letting Go 135