Zero's neighbour: Sam Beckett

Cixous, Hélène 2010. Zero's neighbour: Sam Beckett. Translated from the original by Milesi, Laurent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4112-3499. Cambridge: Polity.

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Abstract

Zero's Neighbour is Hélène Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. In this unabashedly personal odyssey through a sizeable range of his novels, plays and poems, Cixous celebrates Beckett’s linguistic flair and the poignant, powerful thrust of his stylistic terseness, and passionately declares her love for his unrivalled expression of the meaningless ‘precious little’ of life, its unfathomable banality ending in chaos and death. Poised between a critical essay and a textual performance across two languages adapting Beckett's own literary vein, this book will appeal to scholars, critics and creative writers as well as students of the ‘grey self-Sam’. Its allusive intertextual insights will also prove to be of critical relevance to readers of Dante and Proust, among other literary figures, as much as to those appreciative of Cixous’s own inimitable genius for dissecting the quintessence of the life and works of a ‘neighbourly’ artist.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Additional Information:	Translation (with Introduction and Additional Notes) of Helene Cixous's "Le Voisin de zéro. Sam Beckett." as "Zero's Neighbour. Sam Beckett."
Publisher:	Polity
ISBN:	9780745644158
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Last Modified:	13 Jan 2023 02:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/6259

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