Issue 1 of the online journal Limit(e) Beckett has just been published. Its excellent contents run:
- Carla Locatelli, on Beckett's elemental ghosts;
- Chiara Montini, on the narrator in Mercier et Camier and Mercier and Camier;
- Angela Moorjani, on Beckett and Jules Renard;
- Mark Nixon, on Beckett's unpublished short story 'Echo's Bones';
- Derval Tubridy, on Breath and the sublime;
- Dirk van Hulle, on Beckett, Shakespeare and nothing.
You can go straight to the new issue by clicking here.
Beckett made the news on Saturday, as The Irish Times reported on the documents recently given to University College Dublin by the broadcaster RTÉ. Michael Parsons writes,
'Samuel Beckett turned down a request to write for RTÉ television in the 1960s because he was “très unfamiliar with the television and its possibilities”'.
Beckett would complete Eh Joe for Donald McWhinnie at the BBC in 1965, making his first steps into this unfamiliar medium. You can read the story here.
Finally for this week, the Out of the Archive conference at York has announced a concert to be held as part of the festivities.
'This performance celebrates that relationship with four diverse and colourful responses to Beckett’s texts. We’re delighted to announce that John Tilbury, one of the most consistently inventive pianists around, will perform two of his own Beckett-based pieces. These will be combined with a world première by composer and virtuoso percussionist Damien Harron, and the European première of an extraordinary Beckett-inspired piece by Leeds-based composer Martin Iddon.' The programme can be seen here.
Beckett made the news on Saturday, as The Irish Times reported on the documents recently given to University College Dublin by the broadcaster RTÉ. Michael Parsons writes,
'Samuel Beckett turned down a request to write for RTÉ television in the 1960s because he was “très unfamiliar with the television and its possibilities”'.
Beckett would complete Eh Joe for Donald McWhinnie at the BBC in 1965, making his first steps into this unfamiliar medium. You can read the story here.
Finally for this week, the Out of the Archive conference at York has announced a concert to be held as part of the festivities.
'This performance celebrates that relationship with four diverse and colourful responses to Beckett’s texts. We’re delighted to announce that John Tilbury, one of the most consistently inventive pianists around, will perform two of his own Beckett-based pieces. These will be combined with a world première by composer and virtuoso percussionist Damien Harron, and the European première of an extraordinary Beckett-inspired piece by Leeds-based composer Martin Iddon.' The programme can be seen here.
