{"product_id":"residual-figuration-in-samuel-beckett-and-alberto-giacometti-hardcover","title":"Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-89) began writing plays, first \u003cem\u003eEleutheria\u003c\/em\u003e and then \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/em\u003e. When they came together in 1961 to collaborate on a re-staging of Godot, both had turned their attention to different types of figures: Giacometti to lanky, attenuated figures that seem to erode into their environment, and Beckett to increasingly disembodied characters, such as Henry and Ada in \u003cem\u003eEmbers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can we make of this turn in depicting figures that seem to make and unmake themselves in our processes of perceiving them? Through a close examination of Beckett's dramatic works and Giacometti's art, Lin Li traces the development of this peculiar type of figuration and uncovers its implications on personhood, rhetoric and inter-medial reading.\u003cbr\u003eLin Li is research associate at the University of Antwerp.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630953009375,"sku":"9781781886625","price":165.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ss2UWwZ0zQ9781781886625.webp?v=1785614607","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/residual-figuration-in-samuel-beckett-and-alberto-giacometti-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}