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Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti

By Lin Li

Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti Contemporary literature

Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti

By Lin Li

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In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) began writing plays, first Eleutheria and then Waiting for Godot. When they came together in 1961 to collaborate on a re-staging of Godot, both had turned their attention to different types of figures: Giacometti to lanky, attenuated figures that seem to erode into their environment, and Beckett to increasingly disembodied characters, such as Henry and Ada in Embers. What can we make of this turn in depicting figures that seem to make and unmake themselves in our processes of perceiving them? Through a close examination of Beckett's dramatic works and Giacometti's art, Lin Li traces the development of this peculiar type of figuration and uncovers its implications on personhood, rhetoric and inter-medial reading.Lin Li is research associate at the University of Antwerp.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2025-06-16
Publication Date:
2025-06-16
Publisher:
Legenda
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781886660
ISBN13:
9781781886663
Weight:
236 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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