French Literature Reviews - 2026
The Presence of Samuel Beckett
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The Presence of Samuel Beckett
edited by Sjef Houppermans
Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 17
Éditions Rodopi - 2006
ISBN-10: 90-420-2117-9
ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2117-4
Table of Contents
Introduction
Beckett's Presence in History: Influences, Confrontations
Is There an Event in the Text? Erasure or Undifferentiated Collection?, by Michèle TOURET
Beckett and Surrealism, by Thomas HUNKELER
Dante, Petrarch, Leopardi, Beckett: A Divine Perspective, by Jean-Pierre FERRINI
Putting the Image to the Test: 'beginning life behind the eyes', by Diane LÜSCHER-MORATA
Samuel Beckett and Russia, by Dimitri TOKAREV
Beckett's Presence Between Two Languages
Heavenly Father, The Creature was Bilingual (Heavenly Father, The Creature was Bilingual), Beckett from English to French, by Tom BISHOP
Mercier and/and Camier: Is a Voyage of Linguistic Discovery Translatable?, by Helen ASTBURY
Artistic, Geographical, and Sentimental Resonances in Ohio Impromptu, by Hannah Kay CASE
Samuel Beckett: Writing as Self-Translation, by Laura CERRATO
Krapp's Archives: Recording, Translation, Language, by Daniel KATZ
Beckett: From Empty Speech to Full Speech, by Suzanne ALLAIRE
The Presence of the Body in Beckett
Wandering Bodies in Beckett: A Heroic Subject, by Marie JEJCIC
The Body and the Uncanny in Beckett, by Sjef HOUPPERMANS
Paradoxes of Foundational Trust: From Trust to Performance in the Work of Samuel Beckett, by Serge MEITINGER
Waiting for Godot: Bringing an End to Sacrificial Rites, by Tom COUSINEAU
Beckett Resituated in History, by Stan E. GONTARSKI
Beckett's Philosophical Presence
Neomorts and False Living: Depopulated Communities in Beckett and Agamben, by David HOUSTON JONES
Voracious Eye and Revolted Eye: Reflections on Double Consciousness in Murphy and Film, by Angela MOORJANI
The Image of Thought: Cogito Nescio, by Anthony UHLMANN
A Melancholy of Modern Times? Beckett Between the Monstrous and the Obscene, by Yann MÉVEL
Beckett's Presence in Aesthetic Research
The Figure of Bilingualism in Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Oeuvre, by Nadia LOUAR
Film and Film: Beckett and Early Film Theories, by Matthijs ENGELBERTS
The Novel of the Theatre: Krapp's Last Tape and the Didactic 'Remnant', by Ôno MANAKO
Parasites and Other Disturbances, by Florence GODEAU
The Theatre of Non-Coincidence: The Dynamics of Paradox in Samuel Beckett's Monodramas, by Dimitri SOENEN
The Presence and Representation of Beckett
Theatricality in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable: An Attempt to Dramatize The Unnamable Based on Graphic, Phonic, and Corporeal Signs, by Françoise SIMON
Beckett's Interleafs: Towards a Genetic Edition of the Late Bilingual Works, by Dirk VAN HULLE
Beckett in Iran, by Ahmad KAMYABI MASK
Samuel Beckett and the Mechanization of Echo, by Yoshiki TAJIRI
The Molloy-Moran Case Rethought: Between the Thought of the Mother and the Name-of-the-Father, by Ciaran ROSS
Beckett's Presence Among His Contemporaries and Successors
What Is an Archive? (Beckett, Foucault), by Evelyne GROSSMAN
The Omnipresence of Samuel Beckett in the Work of Raymond Cousse / The Presence of Raymond Cousse in the Work of Samuel Beckett?, by Karine GERMONI
Staging Institutional Tensions: Thomas Bernhard Confronts Samuel Beckett, by Jürgen SIESS
Beckett: The Paradoxical Landmark, by Bruno BLANCKEMAN
The Presence of Samuel Beckett, edited by Sjef Houppermans, is volume 17 of the journal Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, published in 2006. The collection includes essays addressing Beckett's historical influences, his relationship with Surrealism, his bilingual writing, the role of the body in his work, and his philosophical and aesthetic presence in research.
The volume also contains contributions regarding Beckett's reception in Russia and Iran, as well as his intersections with contemporaries such as Foucault, Thomas Bernhard, and Raymond Cousse. Readers interested in the critical reception and structural analysis of works such as Murphy, Molloy, or Waiting for Godot may find these perspectives relevant.