From WSJBooks: 'Human beings—and human societies—cannot change or grow without learning to let go.' Christian Wiman reviews Lewis Hyde's 'A Primer for Forgetting.'
Lewis Hyde’s new book is so counterintuitive, so bracingly clear and fresh, that reading it is like leaping into a cold lake on a hot hike. It shocks the mind. It flushes all kinds of monotony and mental fatigue right out of your system. I have filled a notebook with things from this book I am determined to remember, which is quite a paradox, given that it’s a book about forgetting.
Mr. Hyde’s thesis is that forgetting is as important to one’s vitality and sanity as memory, though the definitiveness of that formulation...
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