Memory At Bay by Lyonel Trouillot
A young university student is assigned to interview an aging woman once entwined with a brutal dictatorship, and their uneasy dialogue unspools a web of silences, complicity, and trauma that lingers long after the regime’s fall. As guarded recollections give way to revelations about disappearances, betrayals, and the ordinary habits that enabled extraordinary violence, the narrative braids personal confession with collective history, probing the ethics of remembrance, the seductions of denial, and the fragile possibility of truth and accountability across generations.
- Published
- 2010
- Nationality
- Haitian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-200
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - La mémoire aux abois
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