Video and Audio: Samuel Beckett’s Late Teleplays
Видео и аудио: Т е л е Т е К С Т ы П о з Д Н е г о С. Б е К К е Т А
Delazari I. Tokarev D.
2023Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Ltd.
Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie/ New Literary Observer
2023#180Issue 2188 - 203 pp.
The article discusses Samuel Beckett’s plays Ghost Trio (1976), ...but the clouds… (1977), Quad (1984), and Nacht und Träume (1984) as examples of “teleliterature,” where the levels of the presence and proportional significance of the word is related to the nonverbal components of the television production suggested by the text. The plurimedial overlays of music and words, the splitting of the character into their television image and their television voice, the geometry of movement and immobility on paper and screen, and the uncertainty of the video and audio dimensions of the broadcast world lay the foundation of television theater in Beckett’s textologically unstable works. A close reading of Beckett’s teleplays makes it possible to clarify the genre differences between drama and plays for television and underscores the performativity of the experience of reading teleliterature.
audiovisual media , drama , intermediality , Samuel Beckett , television
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Department of Philology, HSE University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), RAS, Russian Federation
Department of Philology
Department of Languages
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)
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