Friday, April 15, 2005
Samuel Beckett - The Lost Ones
Another one that I skimmed fairly quickly for Genre Interventions; the subject's reading schedule and structure, when taken in conjunction with my other commitments, doesn't really permit of more leisurely enjoyment (or otherwise). I found it interesting, though somewhat discomfiting and distancing (not least because of Beckett's penchant for unpunctuated sentences). The topic for the class was that of how Beckett's work intersected with ideas of exhaustion of genre (and of literature and language) - interesting - and I was overall quite convinced by this reading of The Lost Ones. I'd like to revisit Beckett with a bit more attention when I have a chance.