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- Title: Testimony and Trope in Frankenstein (Critical Essay)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 278 KB
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That at the "bottom" of the human being there is nothing other than an impossibility of seeing--this is the Gorgon, whose vision transforms the human being into a non-human. That precisely this inhuman impossibility of seeing is what calls and addresses the human, the apostrophe from which human beings cannot turn away--this and nothing else is testimony. The Gorgon and he who has seen her and the Muselmann and he who bears witness to him are one gaze; they are a single impossibility of seeing. --Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (1)