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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.wlbgi3
- isbn: 9782878542790
- eisbn: 9782878548617
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Stéphanie Ravez, « Figures de l'inhommable chez Samuel Beckett », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.wlbgi3
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the Beckettian «no-man’s land» in the light of its inhabitants’ haunting question: how can I claim kinship to humanity if I cannot be named or even be akin to myself? For it is not so much the absence of a proper name as the impossible adequacy of face and name which founds and fosters identity crises in Beckett’s fiction. Yet Beckett takes the question of «manhood» one step beyond namability and figurability; ultimately, it is the very possibility of saying «I» as a defining feature of humanity that is put to the test. By addressing the rich and intriguing concept of man’s «unnamability» (or «inhommabilité») and by unravelling the interwoven strategies of avowal and denial that underlie it, this paper aims at assessing the complexity of Beckett’s (de)constructions of the fragile and fractured notions of identity and subjectivity.