The Writing of the DisasterModern history is haunted by the disasters of the centuryworld wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaustgrief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disasters infinite threat. First published in French in