Publisher/Actes Sud

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"Detachment" is a collection of works by Sophie Calle, a leading French female artist. Many of Calle's works explore the relationship between memory, absence, and the individual and society. Many of her works have been translated into Japanese in recent years, and her popularity in Japan has increased. This book was created from that perspective, and is a collection of works that interviewed residents of the former East Berlin about the removal of monuments and symbols that once existed, and recorded their reactions and memories. This is a typical Sophie Calle theme, which examines how the absence of things affects people's memories and identities, but what is unique about it is that it focuses on the changes in people's feelings due to the removal of monuments and symbols in the former East Berlin. Furthermore, it is a masterpiece that makes you think deeply about the fragments of memories that remain after the things that were actually there have disappeared, and how their absence affects people. The first edition was published in 2000, and this is the English version published in 2013.