Misery to Stay, Misery to Go: (Dis)Covering Joyce’s Shipwreck in Beckett’s Molloy
This essay performs a close reading of the Ulysses-passage from Beckett’s Molloy (1951) from the double perspective of the Ulysses-story from canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno (1317) and Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). The argument is that Molloy’s reverse journey on the black boat of Ulysses bears a strong self-...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui 2016-01, Vol.28 (2), p.371-383 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This essay performs a close reading of the Ulysses-passage from Beckett’s Molloy (1951) from the double perspective of the Ulysses-story from canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno (1317) and Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). The argument is that Molloy’s reverse journey on the black boat of Ulysses bears a strong self-reflexive dimension in which is at stake Beckett’s artistic freedom in relation to Joyce. |
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ISSN: | 0927-3131 1875-7405 |
DOI: | 10.1163/18757405-02802021 |