De Samuel Beckett à Marguerite Duras en passant par Barbara Bray Une écriture en mode mineur

From 1957, Barbara Bray became a crucial correspondent in Samuel Beckett’s letters. She adapted The Square by Marguerite Duras for British radio in 1958, whose aesthetics of reserve had a lasting influence on Beckett. He knew the text very well, as he suggested numerious revisios of the translation. Beckett’s and Duras’s writing is characterised by a minoritarian use of language, which developed in his practice of translation and self-translation.