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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
I am very grateful to the editors of lkrdalm for per mitting and even encouraging me to select two works - Samuel Beckett's "neither" and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture Figurine entre deux boites qui
sont des maisons - for my discussion of influence. As I have been associated with literature departments throughout my career, I have chosen Beckett's for my primary text. But while I believe that what I want to say could be said from that work alone. I also believe that it will be more forceful, more convincing. and surely more graphic if I couple "neither" with Giacometti's Figurine. And as artists. Beckett and Giacometti had. in the ?nal analysis. so much in common that when we read. as a summary judgment of a whole body of work. that "he is one of the few artists who has contributed fundamentally to the way the human condition is perceived," no one unfamiliar with the statement could say with any assurance which artist is its subject.
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