W: My Personal Auschwitz
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"I have no childhood memories. Another history, that big history, holding its huge axe, has already answered this question for me: war, concentration camps." Childhood is a blank. The war carved a gap in Perec's life that could not be ignored. But in this book, he pieced together the fragments of a life snatched from the void, trying to salvage memories of his parents. W is a fictional island. In W, ruled by the Olympic ideal, whether you can eat, what name you will have, whether you will be beaten to death - all basic life depends on the results of competition. The fate of the residents is completely random, and the referee can change the rules at will. Here, being alive is a gift rather than a right. One is a story about childhood, and the other is a story about childhood creation. The two texts overlap and overlap. In the gaps, breaks, and breaks between them, there hangs a cruel history that belongs to both individuals and collectives...
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