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Beckett's Linguistics: The Digestion of German Philology
Ist Teil von
The Germanic review, 2018-01, Vol.93 (1), p.58-66
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This essay considers Beckett's linguistics as a redemption of otherness, suggesting new sources for his well-known motif of digestion and expulsion from the German tradition. Watt as well as his postwar French are shown to signal a swallowing of Goethe on Beckett's part, and his notion of "das Fremde" as digested foreign origins. Beckett's poetics of ingestion are read in the context of his "Gnome," a foreign voice both native to national literatures, and which seeks to escape its traditionally diminished and comically distorted form. Beckett's excretion of his origins is central to the motifs of re-digestion, expulsion, and recovery that identify his linguistics of canonical creation. This hidden Germanic tradition of theft, distortion, and expulsion of foreign treasures-the "Schatz" of "Indianer-Joe," in Adorno's phrase-is in turn read as enabling Beckett's project of redeeming the displaced sources of his own canonical literary voice.