Samuel Beckett et la Guerre d’Algérie
Samuel Beckett et la Guerre d’Algérie
Speaker: Jean-Michel Gouvard (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne) and Joseph Ford (IMLR)
Samuel Beckett and the Algerian War
In her book, Beckett’s Political Imagination, Emilie Morin notes how, by the end of the 1950s, Samuel Beckett had become aware of the actions of the French army in Algeria and, among other things, its established practice of torture. This talk will build on Morin’s work by demonstrating how Beckett’s knowledge of these practices deeply influenced his writing of Comment c’est (1961) [How it Is], which has strong intertextual links with Henri Alleg’s La Question (1958) [The Question], one of the most important testimonies on torture in Algeria ever published. It will be argued that it is possible to reread Comment c’est as a coded denunciation of French colonial policy, and that this is one of Beckett’s most ‘committed’ texts.
This talk will be delivered in French.
18.05.2020
School of Advanced Study: www.sas.ac.uk
Institute of Modern Languages Research: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk
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Speaker: Jean-Michel Gouvard (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne) and Joseph Ford (IMLR)
Samuel Beckett and the Algerian War
In her book, Beckett’s Political Imagination, Emilie Morin notes how, by the end of the 1950s, Samuel Beckett had become aware of the actions of the French army in Algeria and, among other things, its established practice of torture. This talk will build on Morin’s work by demonstrating how Beckett’s knowledge of these practices deeply influenced his writing of Comment c’est (1961) [How it Is], which has strong intertextual links with Henri Alleg’s La Question (1958) [The Question], one of the most important testimonies on torture in Algeria ever published. It will be argued that it is possible to reread Comment c’est as a coded denunciation of French colonial policy, and that this is one of Beckett’s most ‘committed’ texts.
This talk will be delivered in French.
18.05.2020
School of Advanced Study: www.sas.ac.uk
Institute of Modern Languages Research: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk
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