Beckett, Samuel - Michèle Praeger (essay date spring 1992)
Michèle Praeger (essay date spring 1992)
SOURCE: Praeger, Michèle. “Self-Translation as Self-Confrontation: Beckett's Mercier et/and Camier.” Mosaic 25, no. 2 (spring 1992): 91-105.
[In the following essay, Praeger explores Beckett's views on language and linguistics by studying the writer's translation of his own work Mercier et Camier.]
Until recently, Beckett's activity as a self-translator has largely been ignored equally by French and Anglo-Saxon critics, both of whom have tended, without feeling hampered, to overlook Beckett's production in the other tongue. Thus we have a farcical, New Novelist-like, Francophone Beckett and an existential, bleak, Anglophone Beckett. Ruby Cohn's 1962 study was an early exception to that state of Beckett studies. Currently, however, a whole new area is developing in Beckett studies which deals with the artist as self-translator, Brian Fitch being at the forefront with his Beckett and...
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