MEMENTO by Andrew Kania

Routledge, 2009 First softcover edition, 208 pp., 5 1/2" X 8 1/2", Softcover

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The film Memento has been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film’s central character, it follows Leonard’s chaotic and visceral quest to discover the identity of his wife’s killer and avenge her murder, despite his inability to form new long-term memories.

Kania explores the myriad philosophical questions raised by the film, concerning personal identity, free will, memory, knowledge, and action. It also addresses problems in aesthetics raised through the film's narrative structure, ontology, and genre.