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Further references will be given in the text. The essay is reproduced, with some modifications -
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As readers may have gathered, this was the project that, several false starts and a number of rejected submissions later, would finally culminate in my Beckett's Fiction -
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I explore this reading in more detail in my
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
- ISSN
- 0264-8334
- eISSN
- 1750-0176
- DOI
- 10.3366/para.2022.0393
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Writers, readers, critics all have strong personal preferences. Roland Barthes was a case in point. Many were the texts he chose to affirm. Others he rejected, while some were left to hover in the margins of his thinking. Still others barely feature at all, among which, conspicuous by their absence, are the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett. This article examines the political, theoretical and affective reasons for Barthes’s apparent indifference to a writer who, despite early hostility on the part of the literary establishment, came to be seen as the abiding embodiment of late modernity. It contrasts Barthes’s limited response to Beckett with that of another leading critic of the period, Maurice Blanchot.
Journal
Paragraph – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jul 1, 2022