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Nothing Left but the Core of Murmurs? : Attacks on Linking as Communication in Beckett’s The Unnamable
2022
Literary studies have usually interpreted Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable (1959) to reflect an area void of meaning and inaccessible to representation. The present article, by contrast, argues that Beckett experientially communicates archaic psychic reality where certain contents develop in an interpersonal relationship. The article offers psychoanalytical close readings of a few key passages in the text, where the function that is integrated in the narrative voice and actively destroys connections manifests itself on different textual levels. Using the psychoanalyst Avner Bergstein’s interpretation of Wilfred Bion’s concept, “attacks on linking”, as a paradoxical form of communication, the …
Les tropes dans deux pièces de théâtre de l'absurde : analyse rhétorique des tropes dans En attendant Godot et dans Fin de partie par Samuel Beck…
2002
La traumatographie beckettienne
2018
The trauma of Beckett’s dramatic characters consists first of all of greater and greater disability of aging body, and of persvasive emptiness. In an indeterminated space characterized by catastrophy, man’s life was reduced to agony, being relieved by irony and poetry.
Samuel Beckett : dilemme d’une langue et autotraduction
2018
Samuel Beckett choisit de changer de langue d’écriture à plusieurs reprises, de l’anglais au français et vice versa. Les raisons de ces mouvements sont nombreuses : son besoin de changer de langue pour perdre les tics acquis en anglais qu’il acquiert postérieurement en français, la relation qu’il entretient avec sa mère, la censure, le tabou sexuel et la religion trop présente à son goût en Irlande. Selon Chiara Montini, ces changements de langue sont ponctués par périodes. Les autotraductions du dramaturge diffèrent en fonction de la période durant laquelle il les réalise. Ces autotraductions restent généralement proches des textes d’origine mais nous pouvons affirmer qu’il s’agit bel et b…
Samuel Beckett, Pragmatic Contradiction and the Vestiges of Practical Necessity
2016
This essay examine Samuel Beckett's *Trilogy to specify the conditions under which we could make sense of practical necessity. Among other things, I will show how Ajax' must is connected to Mol/oy's attempt to visit his mother and to the need to keep talking that both Molloy and the Unnamable share. I will conclude that their dislocated pursuit of certainty reveal - among other things - how the conditions under which practical necessity can be properly experienced have been extirpated from our social and cultural context. Still, the fact that its vestiges nevertheless subsist provide some reason to regard practical necessity as a constitutive aspect of our agency. This will provide a partic…