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Searching for Company.

The universe of Samuel Beckett’s late


prose (doctoral dissertation)

Author: Lívia Bueloni Gonçalves

Supervisor: Fábio de Souza Andrade

Institution: University of São Paulo, Literary Theory Program of


Graduate Studies. (USP-FFLCH-DTLLC)

My study presents a reading of Samuel Beckett´s so-called second


trilogy in prose comprising the works Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill
Said (1981), and Worstward Ho (1983), with special focus on
Company. These texts belong to the author’s late prose,
characterized by a mixture of genres and the intense questioning of
both language and literary representation. While highlighting the
specificities of this period, we argue that among all the experiments
of the Beckettian narrator there is a mechanism that seeks for
company within the very narrative – a theme present in many of
Beckett’s works, which is further stressed by the publication of
Company. The need for company through the act of narrative,
however, unfolds in an ambiguous and conflicted manner.

Keywords: Beckett; company; Beckett’s second trilogy; Beckett’s


late prose; Company; Ill Seen Ill Said; Worstward Ho.

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