{"product_id":"bark-the-mit-press-9780262036849","title":"Bark The MIT Press","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman's meditations on his visit, recorded in this spare, poetic, and powerful book. \u003ci\u003eBark \u003c\/i\u003eis a personal account, drawing not on the theoretical apparatus of scholarship but on Didi-Huberman's own history, memory, and knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text proceeds as a series of reflections, accompanied by Didi-Huberman's photographs of the visit. The photographs are not meant to be art—Didi-Huberman confesses that he “photographed practically everything without looking”—but approach it nevertheless. Didi-Huberman tells us that his grandparents died at Auschwitz, but his accoun\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733446996311,"sku":"9780262036849","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bark-the-mit-press-9780262036849","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}