Gujurat

In Primo Levi’s 1946 short story ‘I mnemagoghi’, or ‘The mnemagogues’, a doctor named Montesanto has developed an olfactory process of recall by concocting chemicals which replicate smells from isolated moments of his life. He invites a junior physician, Morandi, to unstopper the vials and remark upon what he smells. There is a moment in the…