Dirk van Hulle

"Doktor Faustus", J.S. Bach, and the Crisis of the Novel

Thomas Mann's Art of the Fugue

Pim Verhulst

"This volume analyses the genesis of Beckett's novel Malone meurt /Malone dies. Written in French in 1947-1948, and translated into English by the author in 1954-1956, it is the second part of the so-called "Trilogy," preceded by Molloy and followed by L'Innommable/The Unnamable. Because Malone's account approximates a diary, this book starts from H. Porter Abbott's notion of 'diary fiction' to examine the surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and pre-book publication extracts. Even though the writing process of Malone meurt almost coincides with the progression of the narrative, illustrating what Louis Hay has called "écriture à processus," Beckett made substantial changes to the text, which can be interpreted as a critique of Honoré de Balzac's programmatic writing method. This analysis extends to the genesis of Malone Dies (Beckett's English translation of the novel), which alludes to Balzac's novel Louis Lambert. in order to show that self-translation is a crucial and integral part of Beckett's bilingual autographic project"--Back cover.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Malone Meurt/Malone Dies

Wim Van Mierlo

Reading notes constitute a vast resource for an understanding of literary history and culture. They indicate what writers read as well as how they read and what they used in their own work. As such, they play an important role in both the reception and the production of texts. The essays in this volume, representing the newest trends in European and international textual scholarship, examine literary creation and the relationship between reading and writing. To study how readers respond to writing and how reading engenders new writing, the contributing scholars no longer take for granted that authors write in splendid isolation, but turn to a more broadly sociological investigation of authorship, assigning new roles to the writer as reader, notetaker, annotator, book collector and so on. Notes and annotations may be fragmentary, private, undigested and embryonic, but as witnesses to the reading process, they tell unique stories about writers and readers, ranging from great marginalists like Coleridge to women annotators of cookbooks. This subject of research is a junction of several fields of research and tries to bridge gaps between separate disciplines with a common ground, such as the history of the book, the history of reading, and the history of writing, scholarly editing, and textual genetics (the analysis, commentary and critical interpretation of the way in which works of art come into being), bridging the gap between literary and textual criticism.

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