Title: A tongue not mine : Beckett and translation /
Authors: Mooney, Sinéad
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, Criticism and interpretation.; Beckett, Samuel, Translations.; Vertalingen.
Abstract: After a mid-career adoption of French as a language of composition, Beckett continued to write in his native English as well as French, and to translate his work, often unfaithfully, between the two. This study focuses on how Beckett's self-translation emerges as a crucial aspect of his exploration of uncertainty.
Contents: Introduction: 'Neither a native nor a foreign accent': Beckett in French and English -- 1. Paying lip service: Beckett, translation and the 1930s -- 2. 'these long shifting thresholds': Beckett's turn to French -- 3. Narration, nation, dissemination: The Trilogy translated -- 4. Foreign bodies: translation at play in Beckett's theatre -- 5. Atropos and Echo: Beckett's 'worsening' self-translation and the discourse of death.