Beckett & Death
With apologies for the extended break, here is a new instalment of Beckett&, on the cheerful subject of Beckett and Death. In this podcast Professor Conor Carville takes Beckett’s often-remarked preoccupation with mortality as an opportunity to think about his prose work, and in particular the slightly marginalised sequence of short pieces Texts for Nothing, written in the early 1950s. Drawing on Reading University’s Beckett archive, he provides a guide to these challenging works, and links them to Beckett’s interest in philosophy as well as to the death of his mother May.
Bibliography
Beckett, Samuel, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (London: Picador, 1979).
Beckett, Samuel, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 (London: Faber, 2010).
Beckett, Samuel, Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2013).
Cassirer, Ernst, Kant’s Life and Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Nixon, Mark, Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries 1937-37 (London: Continuum, 2011).
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Beckett & Death
With apologies for the extended break, here is a new instalment of Beckett&, on the cheerful subject of Beckett and Death. In this podcast Professor Conor Carville takes Beckett’s often-remarked preoccupation with mortality as an opportunity to think about his prose work, and in particular the slightly marginalised sequence of short pieces Texts for Nothing, written in the early 1950s. Drawing on Reading University’s Beckett archive, he provides a guide to these challenging works, and links them to Beckett’s interest in philosophy as well as to the death of his mother May.
Bibliography
Beckett, Samuel, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (London: Picador, 1979).
Beckett, Samuel, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 (London: Faber, 2010).
Beckett, Samuel, Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2013).
Cassirer, Ernst, Kant’s Life and Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Nixon, Mark, Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries 1937-37 (London: Continuum, 2011).
In this episode, Conor Carville talks to Matthew Feldman, leading Beckettian and director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, about Beckett’s experiences of Fascism and Nazism, and their traces in his work. In a wide-ranging conversation, we begin by talking about the politics of Modernism, then go on to Beckett’s travels in Italy and Germany in the 20s and 30s, French Fascism, Fascism and Catholicism, Beckett’s WWII, Joyce, Nietzsche, German Romanticism, totalitarianism and many other topics.
Intro and Outro Music: ‘Median Strip’ from Concrete Island, by The Heartwood Institute and Hawksmoor
https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/concrete-island
Bibliography
Walter Adamson, Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (1993)
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953)
Samuel Beckett, Rough for Radio II (1961)
Samuel Beckett, How It Is (1961)
Matthew Feldman, Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies (2015)
Matthew Feldman and Steven Matthews, Fascism's Cultural Crusader: Ezra Pound and International Fascism (forthcoming).
Emily Morin, Beckett’s Political Imagination (2017)
Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries (2011)
Francis Stuart, The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart (2000)
Pim Verhulst. Samuel Beckett and the Radio Medium (2021)
Beckett &
Beckett & Death
With apologies for the extended break, here is a new instalment of Beckett&, on the cheerful subject of Beckett and Death. In this podcast Professor Conor Carville takes Beckett’s often-remarked preoccupation with mortality as an opportunity to think about his prose work, and in particular the slightly marginalised sequence of short pieces Texts for Nothing, written in the early 1950s. Drawing on Reading University’s Beckett archive, he provides a guide to these challenging works, and links them to Beckett’s interest in philosophy as well as to the death of his mother May.
Bibliography
Beckett, Samuel, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (London: Picador, 1979).
Beckett, Samuel, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 (London: Faber, 2010).
Beckett, Samuel, Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2013).
Cassirer, Ernst, Kant’s Life and Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Nixon, Mark, Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries 1937-37 (London: Continuum, 2011).
