Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

[Dave Monroe]

"For many writers, Samuel Beckett becomes a kind of life sentence.... in no
other discipline is there quite the same kind of relationship of lifelong
indenture to an artistic subject as there s in literary criticism.  Perhaps
it has something to do with the sharing of the medium between writer and
critic, the twinning and braiding of their sentences....  It is really like
an addiction, a making over of and through the words one uses to speak if
those words.
  "Authors who shape your lifeworld in this way can start to take on the
shape of the world as such, becoming a kind of mythos or forming
fantasy....  There are certain authors who attain to this status, who, by
bequeathing a world, became it--William Shakespeare is one, Jane Austen
another and Charles Dickens another still." (p. 1)

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/beckett-modernism-and-material-imagination
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