Samuel Beckett and the fantasy of lithic preservation
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Across his novels and shorter texts, Beckett engages frequently with forms of preservation fantasy: the belief that engraved language can extend an individual’s life beyond the biological limits of the body. I argue that Beckett uses the inscription of proper names to reimagine textual immortality as an inherently material desire. Vital to this inquiry is Michel Serres’s allotropic distinction between the hard and the soft [
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1469-9303