| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1984 - 1454 pages
...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... | |
| Richard G. Hovannisian - 2009 - 220 pages
...journalists — may henceforth expect hard going. Milan Kundera, the exiled Czech novelist, has written that "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." This single remark, in my view, sums up the human predicament today and puts the burden of responsibility... | |
| Barbara J. Eckstein - 1990 - 228 pages
...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.... | |
| Joseph F. Freeman - 1992 - 160 pages
...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...memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting It was gray and cold when the plane took off, but as we flew back toward... | |
| Sigmund Diamond - 1992 - 384 pages
...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... | |
| Peter Ian Crawford, David Turton - 1992 - 340 pages
...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... | |
| Stanley Fish - 1994 - 345 pages
...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... | |
| George J. Andreopoulos - 1997 - 280 pages
...insightful summons of Terrence Des Pres: Milan Kundera, the exiled Czech novelist, has written that "the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." This single remark, in my view, sums up the human predicament today and put the burden of responsibility... | |
| David William Cohen - 1994 - 291 pages
...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... | |
| Harold Kaplan - 1994 - 244 pages
...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... | |
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