TY - EJOUR A1 - Brown, Llewellyn TI - Beckett, Breath and the Body - A “token of life” T2 - La Revue des lettres modernes 2020 – 9. Samuel Beckett, un écrivain de l’abstraction ? JO - La Revue des lettres modernes (ISSN 0035-2136), 2020 – 9 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11051-4.p.0237 SN - 0035-2136 SP - 237 EP - 279 AB - Breath does not fit into specular definitions of the concrete, it also escapes abstraction as the promise of ultimate harmony. It testifies to an ungraspable part of existence, which is also the basis of the living. It reveals a part of strangeness at the heart of the speaking being, and which knows no end. Paradoxically therefore, what remains impalpable is eminently concrete. The second part of this study bears on the emblematic play, Breath. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/09 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - body, psychoanalysis and literature melancholia, drives, trauma of birth, speech, Chinese calligraphy, anxiety, vanities LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/la-revue-des-lettres-modernes-2020-9-samuel-beckett-un-ecrivain-de-l-abstraction-beckett-breath-and-the-body.html Y2 - 2024/07/13 ER -