Journal article
Samuel Beckett and the Nobel catastrophe
- Abstract:
- Suzanne Beckett’s shocked response to the news of her husband’s Nobel Prize has gone down in history: it was, she declared, “a catastrophe.” This paper follows Suzanne’s lead and reads Beckett’s 1982 play Catastrophe as Beckett’s reaction to his receipt of the Nobel Prize. Catastrophe is not only Beckett’s meditation on his painful experience of media exposure and institutional manipulation; it is also his caustic response to the Swedish Academy labelling him an “idealistic” writer of “compassion” and “inner purification.”
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 235.9KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1163/18757405-03002013
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- Publisher:
- Brill
- Journal:
- Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui More from this journal
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 337–352
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-31
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1875-7405
- ISSN:
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0927-3131
- Language:
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English
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pubs:854831
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pubs:854831
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854831
- Deposit date:
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2018-06-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Koninklijke Brill NV
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Brill at https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03002013
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