Samuel Beckett and the Arts. Italian Negotiations

Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media), and his poetic production, have found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies, to more recent contributions. Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment, posthumanism, technology, and intersections with popular culture. However, a specific analysis on Beckett’s relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side - and on Italian’s artists response to the Beckett’s oeuvre on the other - is still missing. This volume intends to fill this gap, offering a view of Beckett as an “Italian” artist (an identity and a language which coexisted, even if to a different degree, with the Irish, English and French in the authors’ work).