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Informationen zum Autor Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. With Dirk Van Hulle, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies , Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project and editor of the book series 'Elements in Beckett Studies' (CUP). He is also a former President of the Samuel Beckett Society. He has authored or edited more than ten books on Beckett's work; recent publications include Samuel Beckett's Library (with Dirk Van Hulle, Cambridge UP, 2013) and the critical edition of Beckett's short story Echo's Bones (Faber, 2014). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Beckett's 'German Diaries' (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp, 2022). Dirk van Hulle is Associate Professor of Literature in English at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies (EUP). Klappentext German culture intensely influenced the work of Samuel Beckett. This book assesses the author's relationship with German literature! art! and philosophy and recounts the country's reception of his work. A lover of German literature and aspiring art critic! Beckett traveled across Germany during an extremely tumultuous and dangerous time. This volume presents a complete chronology of this journey! which lasted from 1936 to 1937! and describes Beckett's attitudes toward German Romanticism from both a literary and philosophical perspective. As to the German reception of Beckett's work! Theodor W. Adorno's "Versuch! das Endspiel zu verstehen" played a central role. This volume translates and interprets Adorno's notes on "Fin de partie" and "L'Innommable!" which comments on the direction of Beckett's "Endspiel" and his relationship with the television and radio station S?ddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR). In conclusion! the collection offers a review of recent German publications on Beckett. Zusammenfassung This special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is devoted to Beckett's intensive relationship with German culture. It consists of two parts: on the one hand it assesses Beckett's attitude towards German literature! art and philosophy; on the other hand it highlights a few important instances in the reception of Beckett's work in Germany. ...
