This September sees the opening of an exhibition, lecture series and public performances marking Samuel Beckett’s long-standing and important engagement with Germany, the German language and German culture. The event takes its title ‘The German Room’ from the early story ‘Dante and the Lobster’, where – after describing the location of the “French room” in…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Becket Studies is now available. A special issue, guest-edited by Georgina Nugent, it seeks to add to what it describes as the ‘increasingly insistent reassessment of the role of women within and without of Beckett’s œuvre, a movement spearheaded by Linda Ben-Zvi and Mary Bryden’s ground-breaking respective studies Women in Beckett:…
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The latest title in the Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been published and is available to download here free of charge for a limited period. Beckett and Stein by Georgina Nugent offers ‘the first extended comparative study of Gertrude Stein’s role in the development of Beckett’s aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 