Abstract: War theatres and their devastations have projected in the collective consciousness a hypostasis of destruction immediately associated with a will to reconstruct, no matter the amplitude of the damages. In the end it is only the autolysis, the canonical figure of destruction, which seems clearly undeniable, although the remanence of the memory which, just like the ruins, offers the certitude that the lost objects are not really dead, since they survive abandonment and oblivion.
