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Article: 'The Existence I Ascribe': Memory, Invention, and Autobiography in Beckett's Fiction.(Samuel Beckett)
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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Beckett, modernism, and aesthetic autobiography
This essay takes as its starting point what I suggest is a seminal moment in Beckett's fiction. In his 1946 novella, First Love, the narrator draws attention for the first time to an opposition between two categories of thingness which persists as a foundational structural distinction for the remaining four decades of Beckett's prose writing career. Talking of the objects, people, and places that form the subject matter of his stories, the narrator claims: 'I have always spoken, no doubt always shall, of things that never existed, or that existed, if you insist, no doubt always will, but not with the existence I ...
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Article: The remnants of a pensum: Samuel Beckett's lifework.
The Southern Review;
June 22, 1997 ;
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... ... conclusion, which I take to be Beckett's as well, that "[i ... condition, a state that for Beckett and his creatures primarily ... hence the. illusion of invention -- because its original inscription ... occasion.) Once its history in Beckett's oeuvre is traced, pensum ...
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