- 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 essays appear in their original language of composition (English, French, or German), as stipulated by Beckett, since the volume is intended for scholars who should be able to read several languages. Beckett himself did not value these pieces much, seeing them as "mere products of friendly obligation or economic need"[1].
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.
Contents
Contents
- Foreword by Ruby Cohn
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)
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
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)
Part IV: Human Wishes
A fragment from an early historical play.
Notes
- ^ Cohn, Ruby. Foreword to Disjecta. pg. 7
The prose of Samuel Beckett Novels: Short stories: “Assumption” • “Sedendo et Quiescendo” • “Text” • “A Case in a Thousand” • “First Love” • “The Expelled” • “The Calmative” • “The End” • “Texts for Nothing” • “From an Abandoned Work” • “The Image” • “All Strange Away” • “Imagination Dead Imagine” • “Enough” • “Ping” • “Lessness” • “The Lost Ones” • “Fizzles” • “Heard in the Dark 1” • “Heard in the Dark 2” • “One Evening” • “As the story was told” • “The Cliff” • “neither” • “Stirrings Still” • “Company” • “Ill Seen Ill Said” • “Worstward Ho”
Short story collections: More Pricks Than Kicks • Stories and Texts for Nothing • The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989
Non-fiction: Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam) • Disjecta • Proust • "The Capital of the Ruins"
Categories:- Books by Samuel Beckett
- Essay collections
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