She travels to the site to approach a "truth" that history books keep her away from. At the same time, Cécile Wajsbrot proposes an interview with her about Germany, German, "memory and its corollaries of forgetting," which gives rise to a book, Une autobiographie allemande (Christian Bourgois, 2016). The writing of catastrophe is haunted by silence and fantasies, "a furious commotion of nameless pains." From this commotion, Cixous says, History cannot give an account. It is up to literature to do so; it alone allows her to sound the depths that lie beneath the cobblestones of Osnabrück. Screening of Osna (30 min), made for the exhibition by Raphaël Sigal and Jean‑Baptiste Warluzel, followed by a discussion in the presence of Hélène Cixous (above) (subject to confirmation) and Cécile Wajsbrot (below), co-author of Une autobiographie allemande (Christian Bourgois, 2016). In conversation with Raphaël Sigal, curator of the exhibition.
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