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- W2197314218 abstract "central preoccupation of How Is is the act of bearing witness: say it as I hear it. Readings of the novel turn on whether the text ultimately bears wit ness to the presence of alterity or cancels it in a final claim of absolute aes thetic autonomy. Here I draw out the text's relationship to two contrasting paradigms of witnessing: the theological paradigm exemplified by Dante's Comedy and the secular paradigm formulated by Giorgio Agamben in Rem nants of Auschwitz. I argue that the text's paratactic structure, pronominal indeterminacy and ambiguous negations bear out Agamben's secular paradigm of bearing witness. 1. The Witness A I'd need a witness (19) says the voice murmuring in the mud of Samuel Beckett's How Is. Why does this voice need a wit ness? The simplest answer is, in order to transform verbal expression into written text: recorded none the less it's preferable somehow somewhere as it stands as it comes my life my moments not the mil lionth part all lost nearly all someone listening another noting or the same (7). The role of the - a recurrent theme in Beckett's work - is here divided into two functions: listener and noter. Although seemingly complementary, the two roles can be seen as corresponding to two paradigms of witnessing, one logical, materialist; the other theological, metaphysical. For the scribe is necessary, in a logical, materialist sense, to explain the existence of the text. Thus Molloy, Moran and Malone all draw attention to their own acts of writing, and even the Unnamable feels compelled to point out that It is I who write, who cannot raise my hand from my knee (Beckett 1958, 17). But the listener is necessary, in a theological, metaphysical sense, to guarantee the existence, not of the text, but of the speaker, in a version of Bishop Berkeley's Esse est" @default.
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- W2197314218 title "BEARING WITNESS IN HOW IT IS" @default.
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