The Novels of Samuel Beckett: An Amalgam of Joyce and Proust
1960; Duke University Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1768418
ISSN1945-8517
Autores Tópico(s)Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
ResumoAMUEL BECKETT has said little directly about his own work. S He has modestly avoided taking a literary stand or connecting himself with any school or movement. But this has not prevented his commentators from associating his plays with those of Adamov and Ionesco, and his novels with those of Kafka, Camus, and Genet. Denied the assent of Beckett, who has so far remained noncommittal concerning his literary forebears, most of these judgments must be relegated to the category of impressionistic criticism. On two occasions, however, Beckett has made known his opinions of other writers. In 1929 he contributed a twenty-page essay to a volume published in James Joyce's honor, Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incantination of Work in Progress. Two years later he published a monograph on Marcel Proust. The Joyce essay, bearing the tangential yet suggestive title Dante ... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce, is clearly the work of a young man. It is original and intuitive but at the same time digressive and facile. Comparison with Joyce's early critical article on Ibsen immediately comes to mind. Beckett shows the same blind dedication to Joyce which Joyce showed to Ibsen twenty-nine years earlier.l The youthful pretentiousness of Beckett's title is carried over into the essay:
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