This final, searching novel follows a protagonist in failing health as he moves back and forth between personal memory and the record of twentieth-century violence. Fragments of private history, psychiatric recollection, war, and ethnic cleansing accumulate until the novel becomes an insistently verbal act of resistance against forgetting.

Memory is not comfort here; it is something dug up in order to resist oblivion.

Built from poems originally written in French, this collection lets time, memory, war, and love braid together in non-linear ways. Its structure expands from a single moment toward historical scale, placing everyday perception and philosophical thought in the same current.

A single moment gradually opens into a larger field that holds history itself.