Bark

by Georges Didi-Huberman

A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

On 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036843
• ISBN13: 9780262036849
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher