ABSTRACT
The notions of where and when are always together. Time and space cannot be separated; one depends on the other. This is what Mikhail Bakhtin meant by his idea of the chronotope, the idea of time and place linked in memory. The work of memory is not merely introspection, but retrospection. Whether real or planted, the memory is always just a fragment, and in this way memory is like a photograph. The place itself comes to frame the memory even as it is part of it, and so is not really neutral. But the fact that it took place precisely in that place now compartmentalises and characterises the memory. Memories change only in volume, in breadth and depth, but not in how they end. Memories are always in place and they fit into their space.
