A thought devoted to the problem of testimony is often obliged to face questions related to time and language. Such issues arise in the debate as concepts of a broader approach, since they are attached to the development of human meditations. Giorgio Agamben, in a significant part of his work, inserts, in the debate about testimony, a relevant point of discussion: the remnant. Seeking to on these aspects, particularly on testimony, remnants, time and language, we propose an analysis of the novel The absent city, by Ricardo Piglia, to investigate, in his narratives, the textual mechanisms that interrogate the possibilities (and impossibilities) of constitution of experience in contemporaneity.
Testimony; remnants; time; language; Ricardo Piglia