Very formally experimental, obviously. Thoughts and clauses cascade and then interrupt themselves, names don't have a concrete referent, etc. The writing is aware of and steps outside itself. At one point the book warns that the writing is becoming anachronistic - but isn't the juxtaposition of persecution throughout time (witch hunts, Kristallnacht, an undetermined future) the idea?

It's more about what it means to think about and write on atrocities in history, in the larger sense and in how we think about them collectively. Cixous has her mother's recollections, cities have the "preservation" of spaces and what is and isn't remembered in that preservation, survivors and academics are "recognized" and given "awards" out of an empty mutual obligation, etc. Histories remembered and misremembered haunt the text and the spaces and the survivors and their offspring.

Can't pretend I fully understand everything here. But hoping to read more Cixous soon.