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 Festivals Project: Beckett, Ireland and the Biographical Festival
The MAC Belfast • 21-22 June, 2017
Read MoreBeckett Research Seminar, 2017
University of Reading • 20 May 2017
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The Endgame Project
The first public screening of a new documentary film
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Meet the New President of the Samuel Beckett Society
Daniela Caselli shares her fascination with Beckett’s writing, and what she sees as the next step for the Society
Read MoreCFP: Samuel Beckett’s Correspondence: Theories and Methods
MLA Call for Papers
Read MoreSamuel Beckett and the End of Literature
University of Reading
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La Violence dans l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett : entre langage et corps
A publication announcement from Llewellyn Brown
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