...past, but to argue that they reflect upon their past as they contemplate their future. Kundera has also written that "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Ponapeans have forgotten very little. Specifically, they have not lost sight of the meaningfulness...

...parable of lost letters. Mirek, the protagonist of "Lost Letters," is introduced by his assertion in 1971 "that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting" (3). The point here seems quite clear, for memory, unlike laughter, is the opposite of forgetting....

...events dating back only a few years as if they were a thousand years old." But why bother? Because "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." 11 Since historical memory is one of the weapons against abuse and power, there is no question why...

...of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 7 See Milan Kundera (1981, p. 3) '. . .the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.' References Books and articles Abercrombie, N., S. Hill and BS Turner (1980), The Dominant Ideology...

...conscious of it, at least in part, or to sleepwalk through that which we presume to be directing. Memory The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting It was gray and cold when the plane took off,...

...were in fact "genocide." It is fitting to conclude with the insightful summons of Terrence Des Pres: Milan Kundera, the exiled Czech novelist, has written...in my view, sums up the human predicament today and put the burden of responsibility exactly where it falls — on writers, and now more than ever, on...

...Jane Marcus makes the point with the notion of "forgetting." She quotes Milan Kundera to the effect that "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. . . . [M]an has always harbored the desire to ... change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own...

...past has been subjected to all kinds of suppression. Kundera has reminded us that — in his words — the "struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Yet, as we read Kundera's text, we may note the ways in which the xm xiv Preface past,1 the forces...

...a command for moral survival for which there is no surfeit, and where, as in Milan Kundera's words, "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." A participant in the Eichmann trial was asked if he could discern a meaning in Auschwitz. "I hope I...

...Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza1 IN THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING, CZECH NOVEList Milan Kundera writes that, "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."2 This concept of memory as struggle against domination is thematically sustained throughout...