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Wellâ€“Kept Ruins

By (author) HÃ©lÃ¨ne Cixous, By (author) Beverley Bie Brahic

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A genre-defying book from one of Franceâ€™s most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of OsnabrÃ¼ck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Yearsâ€™ War and one of the most calamitous periods of European history to an end. But the city was later to witness another calamity. Today, as one walks through Old Synagogue Street in a rich neighborhood of OsnabrÃ¼ck, one might miss noticing a pile of pale stones held together by chicken wire that sits between two fashionable homes. These are the well-kept ruins from behind which stares a gaping spaceâ€”a place of memory and oblivion. Four polished plaques tell the tale of the horror-filled night of November 9, 1938â€”today known as Kristallnachtâ€”when the synagogue that had stood on this spot was desecrated, looted, set on fire, and eventually demolished by Hitlerâ€™s forces. On the same day, ninety parishioners were imprisoned by the Gestapo and eventually sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. OsnabrÃ¼ck was also home to Eve Klein, a member of the cityâ€™s early-twentieth-century Jewish community and the mother of author HÃ©lÃ¨ne Cixous. In Well-Kept Ruins, Cixous returns to the historic city in 2019 and reflects on the remains of the synagogue that â€œexpress the life lost, the life kept.â€ Walking the streets of the city, plumbing the depths of the past along with her own familyâ€™s history, looking deep into the future, and punctuating her poetic prose with haunting photographs, Cixous explores the ruins at the heart of humanity. Part memoir, part philosophical meditation, Well-Kept Ruins is a genre-defying and timely reflection of the contemporary human condition. Â

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