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Bilingualism remains one of the most enigmatic aspects of Beckett’s work. In recent years there has been a considerable increase in studies devoted to the author’s practice of self-translation and to the bilingual dimension of his work. Beckett criticism has often focused on the opposition between the writer’s mother tongue (English) and his second language (French) and has adopted a comparative approach to determine, in the wake of the pioneering work of Brian Fitch, “the relationship between the two versions both at the level of production and the genesis of the work and at the level of its reception.”1 More recently, the genetic approach has opened a window into Beckett’s creative mind. By tracing the various stages of the compositional history of the works and their translations, the genetic analyses of the works have come closest to the mechanisms of the creative processes. The relatively easy access to archival documents and the publication of the four volumes of Beckett’s monumental correspondence have also made certain rewriting processes intelligible and contributed to a greater understanding of what we call here, the poetics of bilingualism.This volume continues the reflection on the processes of Beckett’s creative mind and shows how the translative
Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2018
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