How it would be possible for future writers to formulate the future of literature and literary ‘expression’ after Beckett’s literary revolution? If Beckett introduces a kind of writing that attempts to suspend all talking, all imagination in literary language which opens up literary inventiveness, and at the same time offering an ‘obligation to write’, how we can even think about the possibility of modern literature in the post-Beckett era?
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Samuel Beckett and Technology
The conference will explore the manifold intersections of technology with Beckett’s oeuvre throughout the years, and will consider their future trajectories. This includes the development of modern technologies in the fields of communication, broadcasting, medicine, and transportation in the beginning of the 20th century and their influence on Beckett’s early writing; his employment of new media such as film, radio, and television; and contemporary uses of digital, medical, and other technologies in new approaches to staging, performing, and interpreting Beckett’s work in various genres and fields.
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The London Beckett Seminar, 2017-2018
The London Beckett Seminar at the Institute of English Studies will bring together national and international scholars, researchers and postgraduates to discuss issues arising from the prose, theatre and poetry of Samuel Beckett that pertain to aspects of literary, philosophical and historical analysis with particular attention to translation studies, performance and practice, digital humanities and visual cultures. Inherently interdisciplinary in approach, the seminar will establish a vibrant research network for postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and established academics on a national and international level.
Read MorePerforming Beckett Study Days, October 2017
Jean-Michel Rabaté and Dominic Glynn are delighted to announce that the programme of their next ‘Performing Beckett’ Study Days in London (12 and 13 October 2017) is now available on their website
Read MoreGare St. Lazare Ireland Perform The Beckett Trilogy
Samuel Beckett’s towering novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable cycle between comic storytelling by a philosophical vagrant, an elderly man lost to memory and fantasy, and a paralyzed protagonist. In this evening-length theatrical rendition featuring excerpts from these novels, preeminent Beckett interpreters Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett offer an embodiment of this existential trinity in a profound solo performance exploring the precision of language and Beckett’s remarkably uplifting worldview.
Read MoreEndgame at Questors Theatre in Ealing, London
Runs from 29 September—7 October 2017 at the Questors Theatre in Ealing, London
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The Beckett Circle (Autumn 2017)
Inside the latest issue: Authorised Beckett biographer James Knowlson shares previously unpublished insights into Beckett’s busy routine; Rodney Sharkey recounts his time collaborating with prison inmates on Endgame and Waiting for Godot; Hannah Simpson talks to actress Jess Thom about her recent production of Not I, where Thom reflects on how her experiences with Tourette’s syndrome inform her performance as Mouth; Jonathan Heron pays tribute to the late Rosemary Pountney with an account of the End/Lessness project; Zoe Gosling attends an innovative performance and panel centring on the late prose text, Company; and Derval Tubridy attends an evening of Beckett and contemporary art hosted by The Wallace Collection.
Read MoreNew Issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies
We are pleased to announce that the new issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies (26.1) has now been published. The issue contains a special dossier entitled ‘Post-Archival Beckett: Genre, Process, Value’, guest edited by Paul Sheehan. We attach a Table of Contents for your information.
Read MoreConor Lovett to perform Beckett Trilogy at White Light Festival
Samuel Beckett’s towering novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable cycle between comic storytelling by a philosophical vagrant, an elderly man lost to memory and fantasy, and a paralyzed protagonist. In this evening-length theatrical rendition featuring excerpts from these novels, preeminent Beckett interpreters Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett offer an embodiment of this existential trinity in a profound solo performance exploring the precision of language and Beckett’s remarkably uplifting worldview.
Read MoreWhen Alberto Giacometti met Samuel Beckett
Judith Wilkinson has written an interesting account of Samuel Beckett‘s friendship with the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. In a recent piece published on the Tate website, she describes how they came to know one another
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The Samuel Beckett Society 