Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Samuel Beckett
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Standard Name: Beckett, Samuel
SB
, Irish expatriate poet, short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, was a major force in international twentieth-century writing and especially theatre. He wrote a high proportion of his works in French, usually doing the translations into English himself. His increasingly death-obsessed absurdity and minimalism are combined with an invincible energy of language, even while the text appears to despair of the efficacy of words.
CBR
looked to Pound
for technique and Beckett
for morale, appreciating in each his obstinate humour in the face of despair.
Hayman, David, and Keith Cohen. “An Interview with Christine Brooke-Rose”. Contemporary Literature, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 1-23.
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She was also influenced by the French nouveau roman, especially the work of...
Publishing
Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR
wrote criticism and reviews since 1947, often anonymously. Between 1956 and 1968 she freelanced at literary journalism and published on a wide range of topics in diverse journals. For the London Magazine, she...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
Influenced by Samuel Beckett
's Malone Dies, this novel perpetually delays action: We'll go on as if. As if for instance I were someone else, Cassandra perhaps.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Amalgamemnon. Carcanet.
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Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press.
118
Mira Enketei (from the Greek...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Literary responses
Christine Brooke-Rose
It bore an endorsement of CBR
's work by Marina Warner
, who considered that she brilliantly fuses political engagement, Beckett
ian rhythms and experimental language as well as form.
“Some Other Recommended Titles”. London Review of Books, p. 17.
Reviewing the novel for the...
Publishing
Anne Carson
AC
dealt another glancing blow to conventional notions of genre in 2001 by titling her next verse novel The Beauty of the Husband. A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. Four poems from this work...
Textual Production
Anne Carson
The angle-bracket in the title is an accident which Carson made permanent: the name, she says, which her computer gave to her draft. Another technical glitch accounts for the fact that [m]ost of the text...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Carson
AC
's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos
in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne
, Samuel Beckett
, Franz Kafka
, an FBI
report on Bertolt Brecht
Occupation
Nancy Cunard
Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink,
At this time medical expenses in connection with a bad arm had cost her 20,000 francs.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
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Samuel Beckett
reported in 1956 that she was looking very wraithy.
Tayler, Christopher. “Under–the–Table–Talk”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 6, pp. 19-23.
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Textual Production
Nancy Cunard
The book, published by NC
's Hours Press
, included poems by Richard Aldington
and Samuel Beckett
and had a photomontage cover designed by Man Ray
.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf.
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Textual Production
Nancy Cunard
The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across...
Timeline
1949: John Calder (Publishers) Limited was founded...
1955: Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita...
Writing climate item
1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
By early November 1973: Experimental novelist B. S. Johnson prefaced...
Writing climate item
By early November 1973
Experimental novelist B. S. Johnson
prefaced his short-story volume Aren't You Rather Young To Be Writing Your Memoirs? with a polemical critique listing only sixteen serious contemporary British writers.
Texts
Beckett, Samuel. Come and go: dramaticule. Calder and Boyars, 1967.
Beckett, Samuel. Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Black Cat, 1992.
Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Editions de Minuit, 1952.
Beckett, Samuel. Fin de Partie. Editions de Minuit, 1957.
Beckett, Samuel. Happy Days. Grove Press, 1961.
Beckett, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Molloy. Editions de Minuit, 1951.
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. Chatto and Windus, 1934.
