Beckett, Duthuit and ongoing dialogue

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    Abstract

    In this chapter I will examine aspects of the nature of the intellectual exchange between Samuel Beckett and the French visual arts critic and editor of Transition Georges Duthuit. While 'Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit' (1949) is one of Beckett's better known pieces of aesthetic theory, and while the publication of the second volume of Beckett's correspondence and recent work by John Pilling has shed important new light on this relationship, much remains to be done by way of examining its significance. I argue here that Duthuit's ideas approach and diverge from Beckett's known aesthetic statements in ways which allow us to more fully understand the contexts from which Beckett's ideas emerge, the originality of Beckett's ideas, and the importance of the dialogue with Duthuit to Beckett's still developing aesthetic theories and practice.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts
    EditorsS. E. Gontarski
    Place of PublicationU.K.
    PublisherEdinburgh University Press
    Pages146-152
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Print)9780748675685
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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