"On Such and Such a
Day...In Such a World" - Beckett's Radical Finitude
International Samuel Beckett Symposium in Tokyo 2006
September 29 – October 1
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"On Such and Such a
Day...In Such a World" - Beckett's Radical Finitude |
| Steven
Connor |
| Beckett's work has been subject to huge enlargement - across genres, media, languages and cultures. He has been made the centrepiece of what might be called a contemporary aesthetics of the inexhaustible, which assumes the sovereign value of endless propagation and maintains a horror of any kind of limit. Having perhaps helped in some of my previous work to recruit Beckett to this aesthetic, I would like now, in this talk, to argue that Beckett is in fact a writer who is governed by the principles of limit and finitude, principles that are in fact both philosophically more provocative and politically more responsible than the cult of endless exceeding that has attached itself to Beckett. |
| University of London |
| Borderless
Beckett: International Samuel Beckett Symposium in Tokyo 2006 September 29 – October 1 |