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Beckett’s French Resistance

Barbara Will’s essay is a treatment of the relationship between Samuel Beckett’s Resistance activity and his minimalistic writing after the war. Will argues for the need to situate Beckett’s work in a political and historical context, instead of an exclusively aesthetic one. Indeed, Will contends that one must look at Beckett’s work translating and encrypting top-secret documents in the ‘Gloria’ Resistance cell in Paris to place into proper context Beckett’s investment in ‘economy’ and ‘clarity’ that characterizes his postwar work.

Liverpool University Press

Barbara Will

Revisioning French Culture

2020

Title: Beckett’s French Resistance

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Barbara Will’s essay is a treatment of the relationship between Samuel Beckett’s Resistance activity and his minimalistic writing after the war.

Will argues for the need to situate Beckett’s work in a political and historical context, instead of an exclusively aesthetic one.

Indeed, Will contends that one must look at Beckett’s work translating and encrypting top-secret documents in the ‘Gloria’ Resistance cell in Paris to place into proper context Beckett’s investment in ‘economy’ and ‘clarity’ that characterizes his postwar work.

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