Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances, in part because their insistent attention on embodied existence and the impaired body. Here, I examine four recent performances plays, exploring how these productions prompt re-evaluation previously undetected indicators scripts, including mobility impairment, automatic speech, stuttering, memory deficiency. Drawing ser...

This article explores the relationship between automatic and involuntary language in the work of Samuel Beckett and late nineteenth-century neurological conceptions of language that emerged from aphasiology. Using the work of John Hughlings Jackson alongside contemporary neuroscientific research, we explore the significance of the lexical and affective symmetries between Beckett's compulsive an...

Samuel Beckett’s negative paths The author evokes some hypotheses on the question of way as a structural data in relation to process Beckettian writing (the critical position with respect language; practice dispossession; disfigurement) by taking up elements his books published Classiques Garnier 2019: La parole trouée. Beckett, Tardieu, Novarina, and Les Voies négatives de l’écriture dans le t...