This essay draws out some largely unremarked aesthetic convergences between Samuel Beckett and two Romanian-Jewish, German-language contemporaries of his: the poet Paul Celan and the painter Avigdor Arikha.
Cet essai met en relief quelques points de confluence esthétique peu remarqués entre Samuel Beckett et deux de ses contemporains juif-roumains d’ expression allemande, le poète Paul Celan et le peintre Avigdor Arikha.
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This essay draws out some largely unremarked aesthetic convergences between Samuel Beckett and two Romanian-Jewish, German-language contemporaries of his: the poet Paul Celan and the painter Avigdor Arikha.
Cet essai met en relief quelques points de confluence esthétique peu remarqués entre Samuel Beckett et deux de ses contemporains juif-roumains d’ expression allemande, le poète Paul Celan et le peintre Avigdor Arikha.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 465 | 91 | 5 |
| Full Text Views | 108 | 2 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 70 | 3 | 0 |