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This doctoral dissertation analyzes Samuel Beckett's second trilogy of prose works including Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho, with a special focus on Company. These late prose texts are characterized by a mixture of genres and a questioning of language and literary representation. The dissertation argues that among the experiments of Beckett's narrator in these works is a mechanism seeking company within the narrative itself, a theme present in many of Beckett's works and emphasized in Company. However, this need for company through narrative unfolds in an ambiguous and conflicted manner.
This doctoral dissertation analyzes Samuel Beckett's second trilogy of prose works including Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho, with a special focus on Company. These late prose texts are characterized by a mixture of genres and a questioning of language and literary representation. The dissertation argues that among the experiments of Beckett's narrator in these works is a mechanism seeking company within the narrative itself, a theme present in many of Beckett's works and emphasized in Company. However, this need for company through narrative unfolds in an ambiguous and conflicted manner.
This doctoral dissertation analyzes Samuel Beckett's second trilogy of prose works including Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho, with a special focus on Company. These late prose texts are characterized by a mixture of genres and a questioning of language and literary representation. The dissertation argues that among the experiments of Beckett's narrator in these works is a mechanism seeking company within the narrative itself, a theme present in many of Beckett's works and emphasized in Company. However, this need for company through narrative unfolds in an ambiguous and conflicted manner.
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.