The Official Publication of the Samuel Beckett Society
Review by Pim Verhulst Clas Zilliacus, who passed away in May of this year, was just able to witness his monumental Beckett and Broadcasting reappear in print for its 50th anniversary. Still the undisputed work of reference on Beckett’s radio plays, it has long been a coveted and hard-to-find book, due to its publication by... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Douglas Atkinson Beckett’s insistence that he was not a philosopher did little to deter philosophical readings of his work. From Cartesians to Existentialists, from Structuralists to Post-Structuralists, philosophers have been compelled to engage with Beckett—with one notable exception: Jacques Derrida claimed to have nothing to add to Beckett’s work, famously labelling it ‘too... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by James Martell As the chapters in this volume show, Beckett scholars are particularly adept at perceiving (listening and seeing, but also touching, smelling, and somewhat tasting) all the material metaphors and figures that build his oeuvre, from the primeval and infernal mud of How It Is to the scorching landscape in Happy Days... Continue Reading →
Review by Nadia Louar Translation as Poiesis: On Samuel Beckett and Translation In recent years, Beckett studies have decisively shifted toward a deeper engagement with the author’s translational practice—not only as a logistical or ancillary aspect of his oeuvre, but as an integral mode of his creative expression. The volume Samuel Beckett and Translation, edited... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Dan Gunn Michael Coffey Every so often, though it seems more rarely than in the past, a book reaches out from a location that is not predetermined – by academic convention, by commercial viability, by authorial confidence, by generic cohesiveness – to challenge the reader to absorb it without the comforting reassurance that... Continue Reading →
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