El segundo ciclo de conferencias del Seminario Vértice SB 2026-2027 sigue este semana, el viernes 13 de noviembre, hora: 12:00 (horario Argentina); 11:00 (horario Chile); 16:00 (horario España). Escucharemos a Francisco Fernández (Universidad de Almería, España) hablando sobre el título “Cómo es, o la novela imposible de Samuel Beckett”. Enlace con el zoom aqui Enlace…
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A Spanish language seminar on all things Beckett has just been announced which will be coordinated by renowned scholars Luz María Sánchez Cardona (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), José Francisco Fernández (Universidad de Almería) y Lucas Margarit (Universidad de Buenos Aires – Revista Beckettiana). Titled Seminario Vértice SB and running from October to next July, the series…
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A new volume of collected essays dedicated to the uses of humour in Beckett’s work has just been released by Publicacions Universitat de València. Titled Samuel Beckett y el Humor the collection is edited by Society vice-president and noted Beckett scholar and translator, José Francisco Fernández of the University of Almería. Challenging the stereotypical image…
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A new Spanish translation of Lessness/Sans has been announced by Árdora Ediciones in Madrid. The volume is novel in that it contains four versions of the same text: Beckett’s original Sans (1969), followed by its translation into Spanish by Loreto Casado, and Beckett’s original Lessness (1970), followed by its translation into Spanish by José Francisco Fernández. Fernández explained the…
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This autumn sees the publication of two books which address the issue of translation in Beckett’s oeuvre. Samuel Beckett and Translation (Palgrave), edited by José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García adresses a number of themes including Beckett’s self-translations, translations of other authors and the poetics of translation, in a collection comprising thirteen chapters followed…
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