In Drengen fra dengang (2004), Janina Katz depicted the tragedy of Ania and Joachim, Holocaust victims with no past and scant hope of ever belonging in Denmark.
And the themes remain relevant now, when the country is coming out of a presidential election shot through with racism, when African-American citizens are being hit disproportionately by a brutal economy, and when the art world, despite the multicultural surges of the recent past, still has scant room for black artists, black anything.
In the past there was scant interest.
The subject of the Pulitzer Prizes has been fly-swatted to death over the past few weeks, offering scant light on an already dark and musty subject.
Mr. Perahia's recitals in recent years have adhered to a similar format: Bach; a Beethoven, Mozart or Schubert sonata; with selections by Chopin, Schumann and Brahms, and scant forays past the 19th century.
Past efforts have had scant effect, experts said.
It charts the mechanisms of memory, both personal and national; the ways in which it is repressed; the need both to remember and to forget; and the difficulty of making sense of the past when evidence is scant, fading or contradictory.Mr Modiano was born on the outskirts of Paris in July 1945, less than three months after the war ended in Europe.
"Too often today villages are being swamped by the present with scant regard for the past," says the caption.
It means that refugees who have arrived in the past few months have received scant attention, are less likely to be placed in decent housing and have limited access to the only people they can call for help.
But likelihoods are more scant, by comparison.
