TY - EJOUR A1 - Posse, Bernard-Olivier TI - The Citational Principle in Samuel Beckett’s Early Work - An Abstractor of “Surrealessence”? 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.0045 SN - 0035-2136 SP - 45 EP - 72 AB - This paper aims to demonstrate that the designation of Beckett as an “abstracteur” is valid in one specific way, which is an interrogation about literary forms, how they emerge and how they are transformed throughout Beckett’s productions. To this purpose, some traces of surrealism in early Beckett’s documents, mainly his first narrative fiction, the correspondence of the Irish writer and the only academic paper that Beckett ever wrote (“Le Concentrisme”), will be put forward. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/09 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - productivity, surrealism, quotation, forms, Le Grand Jeu, correspondence LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/la-revue-des-lettres-modernes-2020-9-samuel-beckett-un-ecrivain-de-l-abstraction-the-citational-principle-in-samuel-beckett-s-early-work.html Y2 - 2024/07/11 ER -