History with Blank Spaces. Denial and Evidence. 

Originating from the pre-eminent colloquy held at the Sorbonne in September 2002, L'histoire trouée presents collective thinking on memory, knowledge and the perception of historical catastrophe: genocide and crimes against humanity.

In this book university professors, artists, legal practitioners and doctors have come together to discuss the infamous combination of denial and evidence in a resolutely humanist and pluralistic approach that visualises these catastrophes on a world scale. The range of historical places chosen by the forty or so authors echoes the breadth of thinking and the diversity of questions: Have we entered an era of denial? How do we disappear from history? What makes crime unthinkable? Whether or not they are deliberately chosen, who or what are the perpetrators of denial? How do they work? How do we become witnesses and what can be our testimony? What is the place of fiction and the imaginary in testimony?  What are the temporalities specific to all these questions?