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My Year 2001: Keeping History a Secret

Douglas Messerli

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Douglas Messerli
My Year 2001: Keeping History a Secret
Series No.: 256
ISBN: 978-1-55713-428-8, Pages: 504
American Literature, Biography, Autobiography, Essay, Memoirs, Non-fiction

In this, the second volume of his series of now 15 annual cultural memoirs written from 2000 to the present, Douglas Messerli explores his own cultural and personal experiences within the context of attempts—sometimes out of deception, but at other times necessarily—to keep history "a secret."

Even the history of the events recounted during this year—in Messerli's essays on books, films, plays, operas, concerts, performances, and political events that often came later—comes into question. As the author notes: "It is not insignificant that many of the big events of 2001 are re-experienced 'after the fact,' with the vision of hindsight hanging over them. For what I now realize, looking back, is that during 2001 there was a concerted attempt by government officials and the society as a whole leading up to that year and including it to keep history a secret, to obfuscate, confuse, and to actually lie about realities that I could not have known had I been writing in the moment. Lawrence Wright's powerful book of 2006, The Looming Tower, revealed, for example, how this purposeful obfuscation and withholding of information contributed to the events of 9/11. My own recreation of that fateful day, moreover, is evidence, in hindsight, of how disorienting those events were within the moment."

Reporting on works of the year which he later experienced and those of later years which seemed appropriate to this volume, Messerli ponders what it means to recreate the past. How does the present deflect or transform what we previously experienced? When do the horrors of the past need to be modified to effectively move forward into the future? What is truth and how can one best express it? Through numerous cultural events and works by W. B. Sebald, Susan Howe, Budd Boetticher, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Leonard Bernstein, Per Olov Enquist, Orhan Pamuk, William Carlos Williams, G. W. Pabst, Eudora Welty, Max Ophuls, Andrzej Wajda, Juan Goytisolo, Allen Ginsberg, and numerous others, Messerli explores these important questions, and attempts to discover not only how to restore the past but what history means to our very survival.

 
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