Beckett Critical Reader

Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volumeThe Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. It is divided into two sections, ‘Foul Papers: Archives and Sources’ and ‘Fair Papers: Theories and Translations’, together with the editor’s Introduction. It contains work by some of the world’s leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Weller and Mary Bryden) and reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the ‘new pragmatism’ within Beckett Studies.Key Features* Gathers 5 strongly textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett’s texts* Includes 2 theoretically informed essays by major French philosophers, Bruno Clément and Alain Badiou* Includes studies of Beckett’s Italian translations* Brings together in one place archival and source material, high quality original research and theoretically informed analysis

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).