"Testimony" draws on survivors of the Holocaust's accounts to present the first theory of testimony: a radically new conception of the relationship between art and culture and the witnessing of historical events.

1: Education and Crisis, Or the Vicissitudes of Teaching; 2: Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening; 3: An Event Without a Witness: Truth, Testimony and Survival; 4: Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing; 5: After the Apocalypse: Paul de Man and the Fall to Silence; 6: The Betrayal of the Witness: Camus' The Fall; 7: The Return of the Voice Claude Lanzmann's Shoah

"In a country like the United States, where we make a practice out of startegically erasing memories that lay bare the harsh realities of the ideology that drives our history of violence and domination, and in classrooms where we generally ignore the voices and experiences of students - a great many of whom have witnessed the brutality of the streets, poverty, racism, and discrimination - the lessons of this book are a must." -- Harvard Educational Review, Summer 1995"In subsequent essays Felman displays her considerable literay prowess. Her analysis of Albert Camus's ThePlague and The Fall as Holocaust literature is compelling, so muchso that it drove this reader to reread these works and to read them quite differently." -- OralHistory Review". . . a remarkable book for many reasons. Testimony endows the survivor, the victim and its witness with a sober and forceful way of attesting to the unnamable and invisible presence of its event." -- Psychoanalytic Books