![]() ![]() When nobody is left on Earth to remember them, the inhabitants simply disappear. The paradox of their existence is that it’s dependent on the memories of the living. Kevin Brockmeier’s new novel The Brief History of the Dead posits quite the opposite situation, with an afterlife city whose inhabitants spend most of their time obsessing over a multitude of memories and delighting over the minutia they were too busy to notice while they were alive. Some refuse to participate because they are unable or unwilling to limit themselves to just one and eventually become counselors since they can never leave. In Hirokazu Koreeda’s 1998 film After Life, the recently deceased arrive at an unnamed community and are told that over the course of a week, a counselor will help them recreate and film the single memory from their lives that they can take with them into the next world. ![]() Each man’s memory is his own private literature. ![]()
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