Whether literature is memory or not is beyond question. But to be precise, it is a separate, symbolic kind of memory.
Memory is a reverse movement of consciousness.
In that process of the subject's constant remembering, what is constituted is the subject himself as a point of perception. And since there is no doubt that literature is memory, that is, a kind of memory, a remembrance, even when it attempts otherwise, in attempting to understand the very nature of memory as proposed in this metaphorical equation, it is still unclear exactly what literature remembers. The disintegration of humanist projects influenced the process of ghettoization of literary art. In few years literature will be a purely scholastic activity, a kind of mysticism, whose secrets will be guarded by certain strange priests dressed in civilian garments, and the rest of the world, if it notices them at all, will deem them eccentric. There are several answers, and none of them, no matter how acceptable, is very encouraging.