Abstract
Brodsky’s first-person narrative describes how the past returns to the present without any prior notice, and in doing so, the present itself is mobilized and re-signified. The Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires invited him to hold a permanent exhibition of the photograph that he intervened to show the tragic fate of some of his classmates during the last military dictatorship. At the same time, the mass killings of Ayotzinapa in México took place. Brodsky then re-edited his famous work Good Memory with students of the Colegio Nacional, who support one of the political slogans of the human rights organizations in the 1970’s: “They took them away alive, we want them back alive.”