In the Grove Companion I noticed this line, at the end of a paragraph that starts “SB’s 1936-37 visit to Germany had an indelible effect.”
The experience left SB exhausted and with a conviction of his dereliction as opposed to the “authenticity of vocation” of others (Knowlson, 234): but it had been a “necessary journey” (21-22)
I am reading the Grove from A to Z. Seems an interesting and different way to review everything while picking up stuff about Beckett. Seems a suitable way to handle the problem of the massive scholarship.
While I read the works. Finished watching the Beckett on Film series this afternoon. Can see why Beckett thought Godot was not that great even though it got him his first wild brush of fame.
Friday in Boston at the MFA was delighted to see a Dubuffet sculpture on display across from the cafe, one of his little logological figures, about four feet high, un homme.
