{"title":"“Old Frantic Fingers”","authors":"Ian Williams Curtis","doi":"10.1163/18757405-tat00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-tat00002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Beckett criticism has long privileged vision and audition when discussing memory. The present study proposes to examine, rather, tactility in Beckett’s work. Touching and feeling are not only prominent features of what is remembered (or imagined, or remembered as never having occurred); they also trigger remembrance and body parts themselves hold memories. I argue that touching and holding are indispensable features of memories and of representations of remembering in Beckett’s postwar prose texts. The body remains a central preoccupation of his work up until the end of his life, and the body’s persistence in his work can help us revise our understanding of cognition generally, and memory specifically, in Beckett’s fictions.","PeriodicalId":508960,"journal":{"name":"Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui","volume":"22 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140716179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beckett personnage de roman","authors":"Y. Mével","doi":"10.1163/18757405-03502003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03502003","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article vise à rendre compte des représentations de Samuel Beckett, en tant qu’homme et écrivain, et des usages fictionnels de sa vie, dans trois romans publiés en France, entre 2013 et 2020 : Gaby et son maître, d’Arthur Bernard, L’Apiculture selon Samuel Beckett, de Martin Page, et Le Tiers Temps, de Maylis Besserie. Ces fictions biographiques prennent plus ou moins ouvertement Samuel Beckett pour objet tout en recourant à l’imagination dans des proportions et selon des modalités variables. Notre étude, diachronique, se veut sensible à la singularité du projet porté par chacun de ces romans.","PeriodicalId":508960,"journal":{"name":"Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui","volume":"41 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139174963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It’s a Lovely Peaceful Gentle Soothing Sound, Why Do You Hate It?”","authors":"Shahriyar Mansouri","doi":"10.1163/18757405-03502008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03502008","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines tinnitus in Samuel Beckett’s Embers as a hidden audiological disability that informs the core soundscape of the radio drama. Henry’s tinnitus as an invisible condition replaces his voice and transforms into a dramatic and personal anchor, one that parodies conventional radiophonic narratives by explicating how the tics of his ears propel his sonic narrative. Henry’s radiographic quest for silence is not betrayed by the phantom sound or the tic in his ears, or his troupe of phantom characters, but rather by his failure to appreciate, reveal, and prove his disability to his hearing audience. To this end, the article assays and expands key concepts in social understanding of audiological disabilities such as ‘dysconscious audism’, and ‘impaired consciousness’, to address a phonocentric culture that either suppresses or normalizes such otological disorders by disregarding them as invisible personal matters rather than a debilitating handicap.","PeriodicalId":508960,"journal":{"name":"Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui","volume":"50 36","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139180427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}