Disjecta (Beckett essay)
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Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment is a collection of previously uncollected writings by Samuel Beckett, spanning his entire career. The title is derived from the latin phrase "disjecta membra," meaning scattered remains or fragments, usually applied to written work. The collection includes Beckett's famous essay on an early version of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake which originally appeared in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. Some of the essays appear in their original languages.
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[edit] Contents
- Forward by Ruby Cohn
[edit] Part I: Essays at Esthetics
- Dante...Bruno.Vico..Joyce - essay on Finnegans Wake
- Le Concentrisme - an account of an imaginary poet and the movement supposedly founded by him (French)
- Excerpts from Dream of Fair to Middling Women
- German Letter of 1937 (German)
- Les Deux Besoins (French)
[edit] Part II: Words about Writers
- Other Writers
- Mörike on Mozart
- Feuillerat on Proust
- Leishmann's Rilke translation
- Thomas McGreevy
- Recent Irish poetry
- Ezra Pound
- Papini on Dante
- Sean O'Casey
- Censorship in the Street
- Jack B. Yeats
- Denis Devlin
- McGreevy on Jack B. Yeats
- Self
[edit] Part III: Words about Painters
- Geer van Velde
- La Peinture des van Velde (French)
- Peintres de l'Empêchement (French)
- Three Dialogues
- Henri Hayden Homme-Peintre (French)
- Hommage à Jack B. Yeats (French)
- Henri Heyden
- Bram van Velde
- Pour Avigdor Arikha (French)
[edit] Part IV: Human Wishes
A fragment from an early historical play.
| The Prose of Samuel Beckett |
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| Novels : Dream of Fair to Middling Women, How It Is, Malone Dies, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, Murphy, The Unnamable, Watt Novellas : Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho Stories : First Love , Fizzles, More Pricks Than Kicks, Stirrings Still, Stories and Texts for Nothing Non-Fiction : Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam), Disjecta, Proust |
