Titlebook: Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe; Michiko Tsushima,Yoshiki Tajiri,Mariko Hori Tanaka Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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Book 2023st sustained study to explore the theme of catastrophe in Beckett and will be a highly significant contribution to Beckett studies..Chapter “Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckettin the Time of Climate Catastrophe” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com..

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Introduction, and Aesthetic Creation; Part II: Catastrophes in History; Part III: Ecological Catastrophe and the Role of Art). At the end, we emphasise that this volume offers new ways of reading Beckett and catastrophe that are important for all of us who seem to be living in a worsening post-catastrophic state.

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Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe. Using Beckett’s interest in Freud’s idea of the death drive, I suggest that Beckett’s later texts work through materialisations of attachment and dependence as a way of thinking with and living with, rather than denying or repressing, the reality of the ‘nothing to be done’.

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Introduction,ckett’s work can be fruitfully discussed in relation to catastrophe as many of his characters seem to reside in a post-catastrophic world. We also claim that since the notion of catastrophe is related to many disciplines in humanities, such a discussion of Beckett becomes richly interdisciplinary. A

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The Not-All Catastrophe in , and ‘Comment Dire’/‘What Is the Word’ as the melancholic subject’s incapacity of situating himself in collective ‘reality’, owing to a collapse of the ‘mirror stage’ (Lacan), this conception can be turned around and seen as a productive force in creation. What is active is an unlimited and fundamentally ungraspable (feminine) dimension

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