What is it about?
This essay situates Samuel Beckett in the intellectual milieu of Paris after WWII and deals with the symmetries between Beckett's work and that of Maurice Blanchot's, with its emphasis on the autonomy of language, particularly with respect to fragmentary writing, which characterizes the work of both Blanchot and Beckett since the 1960s. To write is to experience both the impossibility of writing and the obligation to write that can never be satisfied.
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Why is it important?
Little has been written on the relationship between Blanchot and Beckett.
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I've been writing about Blanchot and Beckett for 50 years.
Mr. Gerald L. Bruns
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: The Impossible Experience of Words: Blanchot, Beckett, and the Materiality of Language, Modern Language Quarterly, January 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/00267929-2827560.
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