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Article: Samuel Beckett mis a nu par ses auteurs, meme: essai sur le theatre de Samuel Beckett.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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Samuel Beckett mis a nu par ses auteurs, meme: essai sur le theatre de Samuel Beckett. By GERARD PIACENTINI. Preface by ARMAND DELCAMPE. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2006. 158 pp. 18. [euro] ISBN 978-2-7078-1289-6.
One of the great achievements and paradoxes of Beckett's En attendant Godot is, despite its dynamic of sparsity, its boundless hospitality to interpreters. For some, including the author of this study, the priority is to find the key(s) to Beckett's vision, and, along the way, to discard false keys. In Duchamp's La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires, meme, to which the title of this study alludes, the bride's nudity must be assembled by the viewer. This ...