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English Department Work-in-Progress talk The Beckett Walk by Andre Furlani


Date & time
Friday, January 30, 2015
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Andre Furlani

Cost

This event is free

Organization

English Department

Contact

Omri Moses
514-848-2424 ext. 8929

Where

McConnell Library Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-646

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

The Beckett Walk examines unmotivated walking. Professor Furlani argues that such walking provides not only a narrative structure but a governing trope for being in Samuel Beckett’s work. For all its debts to Dante, Burton, Bunyan, and Rousseau, the Beckettian gait is not a walk from question to answer, from complaint to cure, or from damnation to salvation—is not therapeutic at all but instead ontological: a pilgrim's gress.

Andre Furlani is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University. He is the author of a forthcoming book on Samuel Beckett and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as Guy Davenport: Postmodernism and After (Northwestern University Press, 2007).


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