Speaking with one’s eyes to the dead

In Aqui no mueren los muertos, Melina Balcazar analyses the culture surrounding death in Mexico. Her book provides Georges Didi-Huberman with a springboard to reflect in his own turn on how in this country, through dreams and images, the living bring the dead to life too and communicate with them. And yet as everywhere else, the dead here do not have eyes with which to see, and their mouths are full of dust. And so when they speak without uttering a single distinct word, what is it that we hear? What do you they manage to say to us and to embody so forcefully that the living are prompted to speak to them in return?