"but also in his determined ‘erasures’ of past writing, be it private letters, early poetry or inconvenient passages in reissued essays and novels." It occurs

"but also in his determined ‘erasures’ of past writing, be it private letters, early poetry or inconvenient passages in reissued essays and novels." It occurs to me that there are a couple of stories in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting that turn on this. The better match is a story about a man wishing to retrieve letters from a mistress he has broken with and would prefer to regret. One might also count the story about the woman who wishes to retrieve letters exchanged with her husband--only the letters are in Czechoslovakia and she is in France.