Beckett, Barthes and Breath

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE PARAGRAPH Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.3366/para.2022.0398
Arthur Rose
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This essay develops a tense relation between Samuel Beckett and Roland Barthes over their treatment of breath. If Barthes’s lovers come together through a shared breath, breaths pull Beckett’s couples apart. How then might breath bring Beckett and Barthes together, so they might be close but not too close? The essay first discards the idea of using a single understanding of breath by showing how the localized instances of breath in Beckett and Barthes do not scale up to a coherent, synthetic concept. Then, by turning to works that play with the problems of metanarrative, Beckett’s How It Is (1961–4) and Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse (1977–8), it shows how breath becomes a possible means of reading these two texts together.
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贝克特,巴特和布瑞斯
本文探讨了塞缪尔·贝克特和罗兰·巴特在处理呼吸问题上的紧张关系。如果巴特的情侣们通过共同的呼吸走到一起,那么呼吸会把贝克特的情侣们拉开。那么,呼吸是如何让贝克特和巴特走到一起的,这样他们可能很亲密,但又不会太亲密?本文首先摒弃了对呼吸使用单一理解的想法,展示了贝克特和巴特的局部呼吸实例如何无法扩展为一个连贯、综合的概念。然后,通过转向处理元叙事问题的作品,贝克特的《它是怎样的》(1961–4)和巴特的《情人的话语》(1977–8),它展示了呼吸是如何成为一起阅读这两个文本的可能手段的。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1983, Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory. It publishes essays and review articles in English which explore critical theory in general and its application to literature, other arts and society. Regular special issues by guest editors highlight important themes and figures in modern critical theory.
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