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Bridget English, « Michael McAteer, ed., Silence in Modern Irish Literature, Leiden, Brill, 2017 », Études irlandaises, ID : 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.5390
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Staining the Silence… Celebrating the virtues of silence over literary expression, Samuel Beckett famously remarked, “Every work is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness”, pointing to the failure of literature to adequately capture the horrors of a post-war world. Despite this statement, Beckett did not let the corrupting influence of such stains on silence hinder his own artistic production, which explores these themes at length. The c...