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

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Publication date 10-2023
Journal Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui
Volume | Issue number 35 | 2
Pages (from-to) 161-176
Number of pages 16
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract 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.
Document type Article
Note In special issue: En attendant Godot et L’Innommable : 70 ans / Waiting for Godot and The Unnamable: 70 years
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03502006
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