S. E. Gontarski

Bio

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. His recent books include Przedstawienie Becketta: Eseje o Becketcie. Ed. Tomasz Wiśniewski and Miłosz Wojtyna (University of Gdańsk and Maski Press, 2016); Beckett’s “Happy Day:” A Manuscript Study (The Ohio State University Press, 2017); Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018);  Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater (Anthem Press, 2021); (ed.) Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021); and, with Tomasz Wiśniewski and Katarzyna Kręglewska-Powązka (eds.), Włodzimierz Staniewski and the Phenomenon of “Gardzienice” (Routledge, 2021).

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A Cabinet of Curiosities: Bad Godots and Lucky’s Brain Science

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Samuel Beckett was something of an accidental dramatist, or at least his earliest completed plays were written as something of a sideline, a diversion, a respite from the long narrative flights he was developing in something of a white heat in the aftermath of the Second World War, the grouping of French novels now loosely called The Trilogy. Theater, he would subsequently acknowledge, was “relaxing” because of its plasticity, its concreteness, its treatment of particular people (more or less)...

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