Vortrag über Beckett in der Amerikanischen Akademie zu Berlin

Am Sandwerder 17-19 • 14109 Berlin • Tel. +49-30-804 83-0 • www.americanacademy.de

Invitation

Holtzbrinck Lecture

Wörterstürmerei im Namen der Schönheit: World and Work in Samuel Beckett

Thursday, October 20, 2011 – 7:00 pm

Leland de la Durantaye Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University

In 1936, in (emotional) flight from Ireland, Samuel Beckett took a trip through Nazi Germany, beginning in Hamburg in October 1936 and ending in Munich in April 1937, with stations in Hannover, Berlin, Dresden, and a handful of other cities. Upon his return Beckett wrote a letter—in German. It is the most important letter he would ever write in any language, and the closest thing to a literary manifesto he would ever offer. In it, Beckett makes incomparably direct (as well as incomparably gnomic) statements about his idea of language, the relation of literature to music and painting, the relation of English to other living languages, and his own relation to the modern masters nearest him, Proust and Joyce. In his lecture, Leland de la Durantaye will discuss how Beckett became the writer he was, and suggest why he made many of the decisions he did, in light of this letter and its ideas of “a literature of the unword” and “word-storming in the name of beauty.”

Leland de la Durantaye is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English at Harvard University. He has written numerous works on the subject of nineteenth and twentieth century literature and aesthetics in a variety of articles, reviews, journalism, encyclopedia entries, notes, translations, as well as the books Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Stanford University Press, 2009) and Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov (Cornell University Press, 2007). His awards, fellowships, and special recognitions include several fellowships from Cornell University, where he received his master and doctoral degrees, as well as fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center, Harvard University’s Department of Comparative Literature, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the American Academy in Rome, and the Fulbright Program. He is the translator of Upstaged, by Jacques Jouet (from the French; Darlkey Archive, 2011), and The Chruch and Its Reign, by Giorgio Agamben (from the Italian; Seagull Books, forthcoming).

Registration required by October 17

fax: (030) 804 83-444 or e-mail: program@americanacademy.de Limited seating available. Am Sandwerder 17-19 • 14109 Berlin • Tel. +49-30-804 83-0 • www.americanacademy.de

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Holtzbrinck Lecture

Wörterstürmerei im Namen der Schönheit: World and Work in Samuel Beckett Thursday, October 20, 2011 – 7:00 pm

Leland de la Durantaye Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University

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