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Beckett’s Prose Fiction and Waiting for Godot: The Boy(s) Undoing the Inner/Outer World Split

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Matthijs Engelberts at University of Amsterdam
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Waiting for Godot is not often presented as homologous with Beckett’s narrative fiction. However, a close consideration of the status of the boy(s) in the play shows that the drama text undermines the dichotomy between inner and outer world, which Beckett was addressing in comparable ways in his novels and art criticism.
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       󰃊  󰂹󰆼󰆻󰂺 󰆼󰆼󰇁󰆾󰃈󰆼󰇃󰇂󰇀 󰇂󰆿󰆻󰇀󰄀 󰆻󰆾󰇀󰆻󰆽󰆻 󰆻󰇁
󰅺  󰂶 󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾 󰃊 󰂹 󰆻󰇄󰆽󰇂󰄀󰆾󰆼󰆾󰆼 󰃍󰃎 󰆼󰇃󰇂󰇀󰄀󰇂󰆿󰆻󰇀󰃍󰃎
             󰆗󰂺󰆓 󰂺
   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰂺󰃈
Beckett’s Prose Fiction and Waiting for Godot
The Boy(s) Undoing the Inner/Outer World Split
  󰃊 󰂹 󰆻󰆻󰆻󰆻󰄀󰆻󰆻󰆻󰆾󰄀󰆼󰆼󰇀󰆻󰄀󰇀󰇀󰇄󰆽
  󰂶 󰂶  
󰂐󰅎󰂐
 󰆔  󰆕󰆓󰆕󰆖 󰃊  󰆖󰆓  󰆕󰆓󰆕󰆖 󰃊
  󰆔󰆜  󰆕󰆓󰆕󰆖
Abstract
          󰄘  󰂺
󰂶        󰃍󰃎      
         󰂶  
          󰂺
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   󰄘        
󰂺              
             
󰂶    󰄘          󰄘 
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   󰄍   󰄘      󰄍 
  󰄍  󰃍󰃎    
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󰆼󰇁󰆽 
   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
  󰂶  󰄘  󰂶     
  󰄘  󰂺       󰄘 
   󰂺        󰂶 
󰆔󰆜󰆗󰆛󰃈󰆗󰆜󰂶 󰄙 󰂶           
󰄛 󰃍  󰆛󰆜󰃎󰂷    󰄙  󰄛 󰃍 󰂶 󰆘󰆙󰆖󰃎󰂶
  󰄙 󰄛 󰃍 󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆖󰂶 󰃎󰇟󰄎󰄙    󰄛 󰃍 󰂶
󰆗󰆔󰆖󰃎󰄎󰂶     󰄙  󰄛 󰃍 󰆘󰆙󰆕󰃎󰂺   
           
  󰂺 󰄘        
󰄖󰄘   󰂺           
󰄘 󰂶          
     󰃍           
    󰂶          
 󰄘  󰃎󰂺
        󰄘 󰂶
   󰂺 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆔  󰂹 󰄙   
          󰄀
󰂶          󰂶 
           
  󰄛 󰃍󰂶 󰆙󰆙󰆔󰃎󰂺     󰂶   
          󰂹 󰄙  󰄀
     󰂺   󰂶    
          󰃍  󰃎󰂺
      󰄀     󰄛
󰃍 󰂶 󰆙󰆕󰆖󰃎󰂺 󰄖  󰄘󰇠    󰂹
      󰄘    󰂶    
          
     󰄘  󰂺
   󰄘      
    󰇡󰄎       
      󰂺󰇢     󰄀
󰆞       󰄙 󰄛   󰂶       
   󰆔󰆜󰆚󰆘 󰂺
󰆟   󰂹 󰄙       󰃕 󰆔󰆜󰆘󰆓  
     󰃍󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆔󰃎󰃖     󰄘   󰂶    
        󰂺󰄛 󰃍 󰆗󰆕󰃎
󰆠 󰂶              󰄀
       󰂺
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰂶󰇣              
       󰂺
          
   󰃍󰃎  󰂶     
 󰂺       󰄎 󰄀
 󰂶    󰄎   󰄀
  󰃍   󰃎󰂶       
             
      󰃍      󰂶 󰄀
󰂶      󰃎󰂺       
   󰂶    󰂶    󰂶
         󰄘 󰂺  󰂶 󰄀
󰂶            
   󰂶        󰂷 
󰄘             
  󰄙      󰂶󰄛     󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆜 󰃍
󰃈 󰆗󰆜󰃎󰂶            
󰂶        󰂺
   󰂶       󰂶 󰄖
  󰄘󰄎       󰄘 󰂺
            󰄀
󰂺    󰂶          
        󰂶  
 󰂺  󰄎󰄎  󰄎󰄎 
      󰂶     
󰄘 󰂹 󰄙       󰄛 󰃍󰆗󰆕󰃎󰂺 
    󰂶   󰂶 
           󰂺  
 󰂶          
        󰂺     󰂶
       󰂶    󰂹 󰄙   
  󰂷       󰂶     
       󰄛 󰃍󰆔󰆓󰆓󰃎󰂺         
         󰄘  󰂺
󰆢          󰂶  󰄀
    󰂶         󰄖󰄘  
󰂺          󰂶  󰂶  
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
     󰃍 󰆔󰆔󰆕󰂶  󰆕󰆔󰆖󰃎󰂶    
  󰂷    󰂶   󰄙 
   󰄛 󰃍 󰆖󰆕󰂷 󰂺  󰆘󰆘󰂶  󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆘 󰃎󰂺
          
       󰂺    󰂶 
           
󰄖󰄘 󰃍󰆕󰆜󰆔󰃎󰂶        
  󰂺      󰂶   
             󰄀
  󰂹 󰄙         
    󰂺  󰂶   󰄖󰄀
󰄘󰂶  󰂶      󰂶    󰄛 󰃍󰆗󰆙󰆗󰄍󰆗󰆙󰆘󰃎󰂺
          
󰂹 󰄙󰃕󰃖        󰄘  󰄀
     󰂶 󰂶 󰂶    󰂶 󰂺󰄛
󰃍󰆗󰆙󰆖󰃎       󰄖󰄘     󰄀
  󰄘  󰂶 󰂶       
            
     󰂺
      󰄖󰄘   󰂶     󰃖
         󰄎    󰂶
󰂶           󰂶   
 󰂶      󰂺     
 󰂶     󰂶    
 󰂺 󰂶            
      󰂶       󰂺
             
       󰂶     
         󰂺    
       󰂶    
            
  󰄎      󰂺 󰄘 󰂶  󰄀
󰂶              
      󰂶  󰂶     󰄀
󰂶           
 󰂺
      󰂶  󰄎󰄎
  󰄖󰄘󰂶    󰄘   󰂶     
            󰄀
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  󰂶 󰂶  󰂶    
   󰂶      󰂺
         󰂶    
   󰂶         󰂺 󰂶 
 󰄖󰄘   󰂶      󰂺   
   󰂶           
󰂹   󰂶   󰂶   󰄀
    󰂶  󰄎     󰂺
             
    󰃍 󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆗󰂶  󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆓󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆙󰃎󰂺  󰄘   
󰂶  󰂺         󰂷  
           󰂶 
           
       󰂶      
󰂺             
   󰂿        
 󰄎󰂶      󰂿    󰂶
  󰄘      󰂶       󰄀
    󰂺       
         󰂶    
     󰄖󰄘   󰂶   󰂶 
         󰂶     󰄀
   󰂶          
󰂺
󰂶         󰄘 󰂶 
            󰂺  
  󰂶             
    󰂺       
     󰂶     󰄎    
                
 󰂿 󰂺    󰂶    󰂶    
  󰄎     󰂶     󰂶 󰄀
              
󰂺  󰄎        
    󰄎      
  󰂹      󰂺  󰂶    
     󰂶      
    󰂺         󰄀
         󰂹    
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      󰂺        
    󰄎     
     󰂶      󰂺
  󰂶 󰂶       󰂶
         󰂺    
 󰄖󰄘󰂶           
         󰂶  
       󰂹
 󰂶  󰂶     
  󰂺  󰂿
   󰂶  󰂺
 󰂶  󰂶     󰂺
     󰂶  󰂺  󰂺  
   󰂺     󰂺
   󰂿  󰂺
  󰂶  󰂺
 󰂿  󰂺
     󰂶  󰂺
󰆗󰆙󰆔󰄍󰆗󰆙󰆕
           󰄀
   󰂹 󰄙         󰂶  󰂶
      󰄛 󰃍󰆖󰆛󰆖󰃎󰂺      󰂹 󰄙
  󰄖   󰂶   󰄘 󰃕󰂻󰃖       󰂶
    󰄛 󰃍󰆛󰆙󰃎󰂺   󰂶    󰄀
 󰂶         
󰂺     󰂶     
󰂶     󰂶     󰂺 󰂶
            
      󰂶       󰄀
󰂺 󰄖   󰄘     󰂹  
   󰂶       󰄀
 󰂶    󰂺       
     󰂹       
             
   󰂶      󰂶   
  󰂺
 󰂶 󰂶      󰃍󰃎     
  󰄖󰄘󰄎    󰄘  󰄘  󰂺 
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󰄘            
        󰄘  󰄎
 󰂶   󰂶     
        󰂺    
           
   󰄖󰄘        󰂶 
 󰂶     󰄎    
           
      󰃍󰂺  󰆔󰆗󰆘󰃎󰂺   󰂶  
          
󰄎            
           󰂺
   󰂶  󰂺      󰂶 󰄀
   󰂶           
󰃍󰃎      󰂿 󰂶       
 󰂶           
        󰄘   󰄖󰄘󰂺 
          󰂹   󰄀
          󰂺  
       󰄘  󰄘 󰂶   
󰂶        󰂺  
   󰂶           
       󰂺      
   󰄘  󰄘 󰂶     
 󰃍󰃎󰄎          
      󰂺󰇤    󰂶 󰂶  
         󰃍󰃎     󰄀
 󰄎   󰄘        
󰆣              󰃍󰃎     
      󰂶     󰂺   
   󰄘 󰂶    󰂶        
   󰃍󰃎 󰂺        
 󰃍󰄖󰂺 󰄘󰃎      󰂺       
   󰂶      󰂶      
    󰂺          󰂶
    󰄘            󰂺 󰄀
󰂶 󰂶             󰄖 󰄘󰂶 
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰄘 󰂶             
󰃍   󰄘 󰃎󰂺        
󰄘 󰂶            󰄀
󰂺              
     󰂶       
          󰂺     
󰂶           
 󰂷              
 󰂺         󰄖󰄘 
󰄖󰄘         󰂶     
󰃍󰃎   󰂺 󰄖󰄘  󰄖󰄘      
󰂺󰇥
               󰄀
    󰄖󰄀󰄘󰂹   󰂶      
󰂶  󰂺            
      󰄖󰄘󰂶      󰄀
           󰂺  
           
 󰂺      󰂶      󰂹
 󰂶    󰂿   󰂿 󰂶
 󰂶   󰂶     󰂿   
 󰂶        󰂶   󰂿 
 󰂶   󰂶      󰂿 󰂺  
      󰂿
󰃕󰂻󰃖
     󰂶      󰂶   󰂶
  󰂶    󰂺 󰃍󰂺󰃎 󰄘  󰂼 󰃍󰂺󰃎 
 󰂿
󰃍󰃕󰂻󰃖   󰂺󰃎
󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆙󰂶 󰆛󰆗󰄍󰆛󰆘󰇦
󰆤              󰂶
      󰂺       󰄖󰄀󰄀 󰄘󰂶
       󰂷  󰂶     
   󰂶            
   󰂺
󰆥          󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆙     󰂺
     󰂶          
󰆔󰆜󰆛󰆙           󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆖   󰂺
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󰂶         
   󰂹         
󰂺   󰂶          
              
 󰄎  󰂶  󰄎   󰃍 󰆔󰆔󰆓󰂶  󰆖󰆚󰃎󰂺
          󰄘 󰄀
      󰃍 󰆘󰆔󰃎󰂺   
            󰄀
󰂶      󰂺   󰂶    󰂶    
    󰂶      󰂶   
   󰃍   󰄖󰄘󰃎   󰂺   󰄀
         󰄎   
         󰂶     
󰂺 󰄘          
󰂺          󰂶  
 󰂶     󰂶       󰄖󰄘 
     󰂶         
   󰂶       󰄖󰄘󰂺   󰂶  
    󰂹         
    󰂶        󰂺
             
 󰄙  󰄛 󰃍 󰂶 󰆗󰆗󰆛󰃎      󰄙󰆕 󰄛
󰃍 󰃈 󰆔󰆔󰆔󰃎󰂺
             󰂶
        󰂺   
       󰂶       
               󰄖󰄘
   󰂶󰇧     󰂺
󰂶       󰂶      
  󰂶       
           󰂺 󰂶  
           󰄘  
  󰂺       󰄖󰄘   󰄖󰄘
  󰆔󰆜󰆗󰆜󰂶      󰂶   
   󰂹 󰄙󰃕󰃖 󰄘        
󰄘󰄛 󰃍 󰂶 󰆔󰆖󰆙󰂶 󰄙          󰄛
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰆔󰆗󰆓󰃎󰂺         󰂶    
         󰂺
           
  󰂺   󰂶  󰂶      󰂷
          󰂺
󰄙      󰂺       
󰄛 󰃍󰆗󰆗󰆖󰃎󰂶         󰂺    
󰂶    󰂶      󰄙󰄛󰂶   
  󰂶   󰂶    󰂶  󰄖 
 󰄘               
        󰂺
 󰄖󰄘           
          
  󰂺         󰄀
  󰂶        󰃮󰂶 
 󰆔󰆜󰆗󰆛   󰆔󰆜󰆗󰆜󰂺    󰂶       
  󰄘 󰂶          
         󰂶   
      󰂶 󰂶     󰄀
    󰂺      󰂶   
  󰄙  󰄛 󰃍  󰄙   󰂶  󰄘
󰄛 󰂻󰃎󰂷   󰂹 󰄙     󰂶     󰂶
    󰄛 󰃍󰆕󰆛󰆙󰄍󰆕󰆛󰆚󰃎󰂺  󰂶 󰂶  
 󰂹 󰄙  󰂶       󰂺  
    󰂶   󰂶    󰂶   
 󰂶        󰄛 󰃍󰆕󰆜󰆚󰃎󰂺   󰄀
           
   󰂺        󰄀
       󰂶     
    󰂶    󰂶    󰂶 
     󰂶   󰂶       
             󰂶
󰂶 󰄖󰄘󰂺
          󰂶     󰄖󰄘
  󰂶    󰂶        
       󰂶        󰄀
   󰂺    󰂶     
           
  󰂶     󰂶  󰂶
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰂺  󰂶           
           󰄀
         󰂶   
 󰂺         󰂶   
     󰂹       
    󰂷         
           
   󰂷         󰄀
          󰂺 
   󰂶          
 󰂶    󰂶       󰂶   󰄀
  󰄎           󰂺
   󰂶     󰂺 
           
           󰄀
     󰄎    󰂺  󰂶 󰂶
             
       󰄎󰂺     󰄀
        󰂶     
      󰄖󰄘   󰂶  󰄀
            
  󰄎     󰂶  󰄘  
󰂺     󰃍       
         󰃎      
 󰂶    󰂶       
  󰂺   󰂶    󰂹
         󰂶     
 󰂶        󰂷    
             
  󰄘  󰂺       
           󰂺󰇟󰇞
󰂶           󰃍󰄀
󰃎     󰂶      
  󰂺            
󰆞󰆝             󰄀
      󰂹        
   󰂶          󰂺
󰄘 󰃍󰃎     󰄙󰂶 󰂶    󰂶
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
           
          
  󰂷    󰃍󰃎      󰂺󰇟󰇟
   󰂶             󰄀
             
    󰂺        󰂶 󰄀
            
     󰄘  󰂷    
              
       󰃍󰃎    
              
         󰂺       
   󰂶          
            
   󰂶        
    󰂶       󰂺
           󰂶    󰄀
             
 󰂷           
     󰂺  󰄎 󰂶   
    󰄎        
     󰂶      󰂶  
         󰂺    
        󰄎  󰄘  
 󰂶 󰃍󰄀󰃎󰂶   󰂶      
 󰄘 󰂺
  󰄘     󰂶    
         󰃍󰄀󰃎󰂶  
            󰂶 
          󰄀   󰄀
  󰂺        
             
󰄎          󰂺
     󰄘 󰂶        
       󰂶     
 󰄎     󰂺   󰂶   
󰆞󰆞              
󰂹 󰄙   󰂶  󰂶       
          󰃕 󰄀
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰂶  󰄖  󰄘    󰄎 󰄘  
        󰄘 󰃍󰃎 󰂶 
           
   󰆕󰆓 󰂺  󰂶     
         󰂶   󰄀
          󰂶 
 󰂶         󰂺  
󰃮    󰄘        󰂺
       󰂹
      
     
      󰂶
    󰄘 
    󰂶
   󰂶
    
      
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󰄙       󰄛        
󰃍󰆔󰆙󰆗󰃎󰄎    󰂶   󰂶   󰂶   
   󰂶       󰂶   
   󰄀  󰄀 󰂺     
 󰄘          
     󰄖󰄘 󰄘      󰄘 
  󰄘 󰂺
             
    󰂺        
     󰄖󰄘 󰄘󰂶   󰄘     
 󰂶            󰂺
󰂶  󰂶         
          󰃍  󰃮 󰂶
           󰃎󰂶
             
      󰂺
    󰄖󰄘   󰄎   
           
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
  󰃮 󰂶    󰂶    󰄀
  󰆔󰆜󰆓󰆚󰂺       󰄘    
󰂺   󰄖󰄘   󰂶  󰂹
  󰂶 󰂶 󰂶 󰂶 󰂶  
󰂺        󰂶   
󰂷      󰂶  󰂶   
 󰂺     󰂶   󰂶   
      󰂶      
        󰂺
󰆔󰆚󰆙
󰂶 󰂶            󰄀
    󰄖󰄘󰂶    󰂺   󰂶 
         󰄖 󰄘󰂺  
󰂶    󰄘        
  󰂶    󰂺      
        󰂶       󰄀
    󰄎       
  󰂺  󰄖󰄘󰂶      󰂶   
  󰄎󰂶 󰄎󰂺      󰄀
    󰂶           󰄘
  󰃮  󰂶          󰂶 
   󰃍    󰄘  󰃎     
   󰄎    󰄘   󰂺     
    󰃍      󰄘   󰃎󰂺 
 󰂶 󰂶  󰄘       󰄖 
󰄘        󰄘 󰂶  
󰄀 󰂺   󰄘       
󰄖 󰄘󰂷        
    󰂺
             󰄀
󰂶            󰂶 
              󰂶 
     󰂺        
󰃍   󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆙     󰂶 󰃎󰂺    
               
    󰃍 󰆖󰆗󰆛󰃎󰂺
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󰄘       󰆼󰇂󰇀
   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
         󰂶    
             
    󰄀  󰂺 
           󰄎
       󰂺 󰂶      󰄀
   󰄎  󰄙 󰄘  󰂶 󰄘  󰄛 󰃍󰆗󰆓󰆚󰃎󰄎
    󰄘 󰄙 󰄘  󰄛    
󰂶       󰂹 󰄙󰂶 󰄘 󰂺 󰃍   󰃎󰄛 󰃍󰆛󰆛󰃎󰂺
          
  󰄘 󰃍󰃎 󰂶      
󰂶    󰂺
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󰂶 󰂶 󰄙 󰄖     󰄘󰂹    󰄛󰂶 
  󰆖󰆓󰂺󰆔󰃈󰆕 󰃍󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆗󰃎󰂶 󰆕󰆛󰄍󰆘󰆘󰂺
󰂶   󰂶       󰃍󰂹
󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆗󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙 󰂹  󰄘   󰄛󰂶  
󰂏    󰂶 󰂺   󰃍 󰂹 󰄀
󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆘󰃎󰂶 󰆔󰆗󰆓󰄍󰆔󰆘󰆔󰂺
 󰂶 󰄙  󰂶󰄛    󰆘󰂺󰆔󰆜 󰃍󰆔󰆜󰆚󰆘󰃎󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰄍󰆕󰆙󰂺
󰂶 󰂶  󰂏  󰃍󰂹  󰂺󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆚󰆛󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶        󰃍󰂹 󰂶
󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆘󰃎
󰂶 󰂶   󰂶 󰂺   󰃍󰂹 󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆙󰃎
󰂶 󰂶      󰂶 󰂺 󰂶   
󰃍󰂹 󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆖󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶     󰃍󰂶 󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆙󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰂌 󰂌   󰂶 󰂺 󰂶  󰂌  󰂌
 󰂌   󰂶 󰂺 󰂶     󰃍 󰂹 󰂶
󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆙󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶     󰂶 󰂺  󰃍󰂹  󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆔󰆔󰃎
󰃍   󰄖󰄘󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶  󰂌   󰂞󰂏 󰃮   
 󰃍󰂶 󰂹  󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆖󰃎󰂺
󰂶  󰃍󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆔󰃎󰂶        󰃍 󰂹  󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶  󰂏    󰃍 󰂹  󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆕󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙󰂶󰄛   󰂶   󰃍󰂹 󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆔󰆓󰃎󰂺
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   󰃈 󰄘 󰆾󰇀 󰃍󰆽󰆻󰆽󰆾󰃎 󰆼󰇁󰆼󰄍󰆼󰇂󰇁
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙   󰂶󰄛 󰂹     󰂶 󰂺 
 󰃍 󰂹  󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆚󰃎󰂶 󰆛󰆜󰄍󰆔󰆓󰆓󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙    󰂹       󰂶󰄛
 󰆕󰆖 󰃍󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆓󰃎 󰃍󰂺  󰄖󰄘 󰄘󰂶 󰂺  󰂺 󰃎󰂶 󰆚󰆔󰄍󰆛󰆜󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙  󰂹     󰄘 󰃖
󰂶󰄛      󰆔󰆘 󰃍󰆕󰆓󰆓󰆙󰃎󰂶 󰆛󰆛󰄍󰆔󰆓󰆚󰂺
󰂶 󰂶   󰂏      󰃍 󰂹 
󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆙󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶    󰃍󰂶 󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆗󰃎 󰃍 
󰃍󰃎󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆚󰃎󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙  󰂹   󰄀󰂶󰄛     󰆙󰆜󰂺󰆗󰂶
󰆙󰆙󰆔󰄍󰆙󰆚󰆙󰂺
󰂶 󰂶 󰄙   󰄘 󰂶󰄛   󰂏  
 󰂶 󰂺   󰃍 󰂹 󰄀󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆙󰆘󰃎󰂶 󰆔󰆔󰆚󰄍󰆔󰆖󰆜󰂺
󰂶  󰂺󰂶    󰂏       󰃍󰂹 
 󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆚󰆛󰃎󰂺
󰂶      󰃍󰂹  󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆜󰆛󰃎󰂺
 󰂶   󰂶     󰃮   󰃈
   󰃍󰂶  󰂹 󰂶 󰆕󰆓󰆔󰆚󰃎󰂺
󰂶  󰂶     󰃍󰂹 󰂶 󰆔󰆜󰆕󰆔󰃎󰂺
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4.5 Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot
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A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction of this work lies in its clear systematization of a discipline whose autonomous status has only recently been recognised (at least in Italy), though its roots may extend back as far as Giorgio Pasquali. This pioneering volume offers both a methodical set of instructions on how to read critical editions, and a wide range of practical examples, expanding upon the conceptual and methodological apparatus laid out in the first two chapters. By presenting a thorough account of the historical and theoretical framework through which authorial philology developed, Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni successfully reconceptualize the authorial text as an ever-changing organism, subject to alteration and modification. What is Authorial Philology? will be of great didactic value to students and researchers alike, providing readers with a fuller understanding of the rationale behind different editing practices, and addressing both traditional and newer methods such as the use of the digital medium and its implications. Spanning the whole Italian tradition from Petrarch to Carlo Emilio Gadda, this ground-breaking volume provokes us to consider important questions concerning a text’s dynamism, the extent to which an author is ‘agentive’, and, most crucially, about the very nature of what we read.
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Beckett Directs Godot
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  • Jan 2006
Beckett is coming to Berlin to direct Waiting for Godot. He is no stranger at the Schiller Theater: after Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, and Happy Days, this is his fourth visit as a director. He also took part in the rehearsals of Godot ten years ago, and it was then that he met the actors Bollman, Wigger, and Herm. Bollman and he had also worked together on Endgame. Rehearsal conditions are ideal: from 28 December to 8 March, mornings only, mostly on stage. Everybody taking part in the production brings enormous sympathy and respect toward Beckett—to such an extent that this will be inevitably, though not obtrusively, reflected in the working process. But he is not only respected as an authority, as a competent interpreter of his own script; more than that the working relationship with him is characterized by caution, attention, concessions, and openness—criteria for attitudes to set free his own attitude. On this basis, everybody tries not to disturb, but to strengthen the tacit mutual trust and to do their job with the highest possible degree of understanding and appreciation toward Beckett.
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Waiting for Godot/Endgame: A reader’s guide to essential criticism
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Boxall, Peter, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot/Endgame: A reader's guide to essential criticism (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).