The Concepts of Time, Memory and Identity in Beckett’s Essay on Proust

Authors

  • Anna Stegh Camati

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v7i1.184202

Keywords:

Time, Memory, Identity, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust

Abstract

Beckett’s essay on Proust, in which he examines the philosophical concepts of time, memory and identity, has exerted enormous influence on modernist and post-modernist writers, who have consciously adapted and re- synthesized the ideas he developed not only in the essay but also in his plays in general. Although he was not the creator of the “memory play”, Beckett has helped to establish the new genre by reflecting upon philosophical problems and adapting psychological phenomena for dramatic theory, besides extending the limits of the dramatic. His theatrical experiments have been considered as examples of the strictest form of the “memory play”.

Author Biography

  • Anna Stegh Camati

    ANNA STEGH CAMATI is a retired Associate Professor of English and American Literature of the Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba PR/ Brazil) and at present she is Professor of English and American Literature at the UNIANDRADE, a private university in Curitiba PR, Brazil. Since 1996, she also teaches open drama courses at the Solar do Rosário. She also works with translation in several fields of knowledge such as the visual arts, music and literature. She has articles published on English and American literature in general, mainly on theatre and drama in newspapers, magazines, periodicals and books. Her recent publications include studies on textual appropriation and stage adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, such as Hamletrash: a Brazilian Hamlet Made of Scraps. In: RESENDE, Aimara (ed). Foreign Accents: Brazilian Readings of Shakespeare. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002 and Shakespeare no Parque: Hamlet de Marcelo Marchioro. In: AQUINO, Ricardo B. & MALUF, Sheila D. (orgs). Dramaturgia e Teatro. Maceió, EDUFAL, 2004. 

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Published

2005-06-30

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Vol. 7 (2005): ABEI Journal 7

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Drama

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Camati, A. S. . (2005). The Concepts of Time, Memory and Identity in Beckett’s Essay on Proust. ABEI Journal, 7(1), 33-40. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v7i1.184202