Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (L. Oppenheim 2000; L. Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). 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. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett’s dialogue with Italy through different media (architecture, sculpture, painting, radio, opera, poetry, translation, philosophy). It also testifies his presence on contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an ‘Italian’ artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.
Rispondendo proprio all’idea di Beckett come artista sospeso tra i generi e tra le lingue, il volume amplia questo campo di indagine verso la cultura italiana e invita chi legge a volgere lo sguardo verso territori in buona parte ancora inesplorati. La nozione di ‘arte’, proprio perché ridefinita da uno scrittore che va oltre la scrittura, diviene necessariamente plurale. Le ‘arti’ italiane con le quali Beckett intrattiene un dialogo fertile e profondo non sono soltanto l’architettura, la scultura e la pittura (cap. 1); entrano nel campo d’indagine la radio e l’opera (cap. 2), la poesia (cap. 3), fino alla traduzione e alla filosofia (cap.4). La maggior parte dei contributi analizza le numerose suggestioni che l’italianista Beckett riceve dalla nostra cultura; non mancano tuttavia saggi volti a esaminare gli influssi beckettiani su alcuni aspetti della scena culturale italiana contemporanea. Il lettore troverà in Beckett un artista ‘italiano’ che è in dialogo costante con le maggior correnti culturali europee. Un’identità multipla e ancora oggi in buona parte sfuggente.
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2024-01-01
Abstract
Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (L. Oppenheim 2000; L. Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). 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. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett’s dialogue with Italy through different media (architecture, sculpture, painting, radio, opera, poetry, translation, philosophy). It also testifies his presence on contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an ‘Italian’ artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
