TABLE OF CONTENTS I TABLE DES MATIERES Marius Buning and Lois Oppenheim INTRODUCTION III Acknowledgements and List of Illustrations V 1. Ruby Cohn GHOSTING THROUGH BECKETT 1 2. Martin Esslin WHAT BECKETT TEACHES ME: His Minimalist Approach to Ethics 13 3. Laura Cerrato POSTMODERNISM AND BECKETT'S AESTHETICS OF FA1LURE 21 4. E.M. Knottenbelt SAMUEL BECKETT: POETRY AS PERFORMATIVE ACT 31 5. Adam Piette BECKETT, EARLY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND MEMORY LOSS: Beckett's Reading of Clarapede, Janet and Korsakoff 41 6. Werner Huber GODOT, GORBA, AND GLASNOST: Beckett in East Germany 49 7. Shaheen M. Mahmood BECKETT IN BANGLADESH 59 8. Bruno Clement VLADIM1R: La presence d'Ivan Tourgueniev dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett 67 9. Steven Price "ACCURSED PROGENITOR": Samuel Beckett, David Mamet, and the Problem of Influence 77 10. Catharina Wulf DESIRE FOR THE OTHER: OBSESSION AS FAILURE I FAILURE AS OBSESSION. Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Bernard's Minetti 87 11. Jane HaIe FRAMING THE UNFRAMABLE: Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon 95 12. Richard Rijnvos WHAT 1T 1S LIKE TOGETHER?: Genesis of the First Production of Beckett' s Radio 1 103 13. DanieIe de Ruyter-Tognotti LE MONDE ET LE PANTALON: Miroir de la poetique beckettienne 111 14. Brian T. Fitch BECKETT'S LITERARY CATHEDRALS: Speculation on Beckett's Achievement as a Writer of Prose Fiction 125 15. Charles Krance TRACES OF TRANSTEXTUAL CONFLUENCE AND BILINGUAL GENESIS: A Piece 0/ Monologue and Solo for Openers 133 16. Yves Thomas TRADUIRE L'EFFACEMENT: Notes sur la traduction de Comment e'est 139 17. Antonio Ballesteros Gonzalez BECKEIT'S ROCKABY IN THREE SPANISH TRANSLATIONS 147 18. Vered Harel L'UNIVERSALITE CHEZ BECKEIT - TENTATIVE ET ECHEC: "On n'est pas issu d'un roc" 157 19. Magessa O'Reilly DEMONTER LE ROMAN: Anti-recit, anti-prose, anti-mot 165 20. Chris Ackerley FATIGUE AND DISGUST: The Addenda to Watt 175 21. Paul Lawley FIRST LOVE: Passage and Play 189 22. Gerry Dukes QUARRYING THE TRILOGY 197 23. Jose Carnero-Gonzalez SILENCE IN BECKEIT: The Unnamable - A Hinge Work 205 24. Mary Catanzaro SONG AND IMPROVISATION IN LESSNESS 213 25. Sjef Houppermans CHUTES SANS FIN DANS POUR FINIR ENCORE 219 26. Pia Brinzeu "WITHOUT A WORD": Pauses in Beckett's Drama 229 27. Matthijs Engelberts LE PANTALON BOUSILLE: Specificit6 des genres dans le 'th6atre narratif de Beckett 235 28. Dina Mantcheva LES ELEMENTS PARAVERBAUX DANS LA FORME THEATRALE DE BECKEIT 245 29. Klaus Peter Müller MORE TRAN "JUST PLAY": The Creation of 'Fabulous History' in Beckett's Plays 255 30. Rosemary Pountney EMBERS: An Interpretation 269 31. Anurag Sharma WAITING FOR GODOT: A Beckettian Counterfoil to Kierkegaardian Existentialism 275 32. Nursei i<;öz REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE IN BECKEIT'S WORK 281 366 .