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Inexhaustible Beckett: even as his oeuvre continues to mark today’s literary, dramatic and other arts, the man and artist remain alive in the memories of those who knew him personally. Collected here are conversations with the author recalled by translators, scholars, artists, and theatre and media practitioners drawing on unpublished notes of meetings and uncollected (mostly) correspondence with him. Through the varied lenses of their reminiscences, readers will appreciate Beckett’s remarkable art of letter writing, his conversation punctuated by pregnant pauses, his exceptional humor and talent for friendship, and his punctilious concern for the translations, interpretations, and performance of his works. The readers of this volume will come to share the exhilaration the encounters with Beckett produced in the writers of these memoirs. Inépuisable Beckett… Non seulement son œuvre reste vivante et laisse son empreinte dans la littérature, le théâtre et les arts actuels, mais sa personnalité d’homme et d’artiste continue à marquer ceux qui l’ont connu personnellement. Ce sont les témoignages de plusieurs d’entre eux que nous reproduisons ici. A travers leurs diverses perspectives, le lecteur pourra apprécier cet art épistolaire propre à Beckett, celui de sa conversation ponctuée de silences lourds de sens, son humour exceptionnel ainsi que son talent pour l’amitié, autant que la rigueur pointilleuse qu’il apportait aux traductions, interprétations et mises en scène de ses œuvres. Nous espérons que les lecteurs de ce volume pourront partager l’enchantement ressenti par les auteurs de ces mémoires lors de leurs rencontres avec Beckett.

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Author:   Angela Moorjani ,  Danièle de Ruyter-Tognotti ,  Sjef Houppermans
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.378kg
ISBN:  

9789004348073

ISBN 10:   9004348077
Pages:   146
Publication Date:   21 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, French

Table of Contents

Contributors / Auteurs Introduction  Angela Moorjani and Danièle de Ruyter Academic Translators Reflecting Happy Years: Translating Beckett with Beckett  Erika Tophoven Reminiscences of a Late Friendship  Antonia Rodríguez-Gago Academics Reminiscing My Conversations with Samuel Beckett  John Fletcher Recollecting Sam-ness and Watt-ness  Angela Moorjani The Many-Body Problem  Kishin Moorjani Partially Purged in Montparnasse  John Pilling On Meeting Samuel Beckett  John O’Brien Memories of Meeting Beckett  Linda Ben-Zvi “For the usual, at the usual”: Meeting Beckett in the Fourteenth Arrondissement  Gerry Dukes Rencontre avec Samuel Beckett  Ahmad Kamyabi Mask Artists and Theatre-, Television-, Radio Practitioners Remembering Remembering (Almost Not Meeting) Beckett  Peter Gidal “Come back soon!”  Anne Madden le Brocquy Quelqu’ un de tellement discret  Bernadette Le Saché Beckett Listens: Sound Production for the 1977 Geistertrio  Konrad Körte Bothering Him with My Questions …  Marek Kędzierski “From one world to another”: Beckett’s Radio Plays  Everett C. Frost Addendum Un après-midi avec Samuel Beckett  Nadia Kamel

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Rhys Tranter has interviewed coeditor Angela Moorjani on this collection which recounts Samuel Beckett's meetings with scholars, translators, and theatre practitioners (July 2017): https://rhystranter.com/2017/07/12/samuel-beckett-conversation/

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Angela Moorjani, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland-UMBC, coeditor in chief of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 2009-2016; books on Beckett and the psychoaesthetics of mourning in literature and the arts. Danièle de Ruyter, Associate Professor (retired), Leiden University, and member of the editorial board of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui until 2016; publications on theatre, Francophone literature, and authors bridging two cultures. Sjef Houppermans, Associate Professor Emeritus, Leiden University, and editor in chief of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui; books published on Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Ollier, Robbe-Grillet, Camus.

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