Zero's Neighbour: Sam BeckettISBN: 978-0-7456-4416-5
Paperback
92 pages
August 2010, Polity
 Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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| "Although a slim book, each page flairs wildly with linguistic
play: puns, double entendres, and off-rhymes, a collapsing of
Beckett's words with Cixous's, a combinatory style, this is a stage
of shadows looming near zero, near nothing or near death or near
immortality. Or perhaps closer to the infinite." Review of Contemporary Fiction "A fascinating meditation by one wordsmith on another: Cixous's
text reflects not only on Beckett and her relations to his work but
also on the very nature of translation itself." "'Precious little,' quotes Cixous from Beckett, finding the
precise intersection between her own expansive, luscious prose and
Beckett's stark and hilarious minimalism. Zero's Neighbour
is a fascinating and fantastic confrontation between two very
different, equally admirable, proponents of the art of living one's
writing out of the certainty of nothing." "This book promises to become as influential in Beckett studies
as its author's writings on Joyce proved to be for Joyce studies. A
work of poetry as much as of criticism by one great writer on
another, this text will be of interest to anyone concerned with
questioning the literary experience." |
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