This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s.  Meer

Samuel Beckett's literary pedestrianism transitions from Romanticism and Edwardian autonomy to mutuality and transitory being. The walk serves as a motif, rhythm, compositional principle, and ontology.  Meer

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence.  Meer

This Element explores the connection between Beckett and Derrida's oeuvres, focusing on their shared historical and personal contexts. It explores their engagement with beginnings, origins, genetic grounds, and critiques of sovereignty, revealing why Derridean deconstruction mirrors Beckett's literary achievements.  Meer

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.  Meer

This Element is for scholars of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and literary modernism. It is of interest to those looking to understand Beckett's bilingual development and aesthetics, and to those looking to redress the absence of female authors from studies of Beckett's influences by introducing Stein as a key figure.  Meer

Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. His writing demonstrates an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption.  Meer

Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. His writing demonstrates an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption.  Meer

This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s.  Meer

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence.  Meer

This Element offers a full portrait of Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989). It mentions the texts she wrote under the name Suzanne Dumesnil, emphasises the significance of her artistic and literary accomplishments, and discusses her steady labour, her uncompromising discretion, and her profound reluctance to become a public figure.  Meer

This Element explores the connection between Beckett and Derrida's oeuvres, focusing on their shared historical and personal contexts. It explores their engagement with beginnings, origins, genetic grounds, and critiques of sovereignty, revealing why Derridean deconstruction mirrors Beckett's literary achievements.  Meer

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.  Meer

Samuel Beckett's literary pedestrianism transitions from Romanticism and Edwardian autonomy to mutuality and transitory being. The walk serves as a motif, rhythm, compositional principle, and ontology.  Meer

This Element offers a full portrait of Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989). It mentions the texts she wrote under the name Suzanne Dumesnil, emphasises the significance of her artistic and literary accomplishments, and discusses her steady labour, her uncompromising discretion, and her profound reluctance to become a public figure.  Meer