Abstract
Perhaps the most prescient of Beckett's early critics were the French writers Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot in their analyses of (respectively) Molloy and The Unnamable. In this paper I argue that the essence of the intellectual friendship that the two critics shared - one of the great tacit 'partnerships' of the last century, which has yet to be fully unravelled - can be discerned through their writings on Beckett. His novels are thus treated as a kind of 'border' across which their own ideas continue to emerge and evolve, which in turn has implications for the development of French theory.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 113-122 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd hui |
Volume | 19 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |