The suffering poetically presented by Monika Weiss shows the lineaments of a history and a political community that are far more complex and demanding than is
usually thought, and that are capable of incorporating, rather than segregating, those who have been perennially absent: the victims and the defeated» wrote Adriana Valdes in
Lamentation and the Locus of Memory: Monika Weiss's Sustenazo (Lament II)(2012).