Samuel Beckett and Pain

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPain as a Creative ForceMark Nixon: “Happily melancholy”: Pleasure and Pain in Early BeckettGraley Herren: Mourning Becomes Electric: Mediating Loss in Eh JoeGarin Dowd: Beckettian Pain, In the Flesh: Singularity, Community and “the Work”Mariko Hori Tanaka: The Body in Pain and Freedom of the Mind: Performing Beckett and NohPain in the Age of UncertaintyPeter Fifield: “Frankly now, is there pain?”: Beckett, Medicine and the Composition of PainDavid Houston Jones: “Strange Pain”: Archive, Trauma and Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian BoltanskiYoshiki Tajiri: Everyday Life and the Pain of Existence in Happy DaysPain at the Limit of the HumanJonathan Boulter: “We have our being in justice”: Samuel Beckett’s How It IsMary Bryden: “That or Groan”: Paining and De-paining in BeckettMichiko Tsushima: The Appearance of the Human at the Limit of Representation: Beckett and Pain in the Experience of LanguageContributorsIndex

"The essays uniquely and surprisingly explore the varieties of Beckettian pain, inspired by this mutually interdependent relationship between the writer’s emotional and physical experiences of pain, loss and suffering, and pain’s incidence in his characters." – Jacob Hovind, Towson University"An interesting overview of the growing research about pain and suffering, topics which have been of great interest to many Western thinkers." – in: French Studies"Cet ouvrage collectif, prenant son départ dans une série d'interventions à Tokyo faites par des spécialistes anglophones de premier plan, offre un apport très enrichissant à la question du coprs chez Beckett, déployant des perspectives variées sur la douleur sous ses formes physique et morale." – Llewellyn Brown, in: Les Lettres romanes"Il faut recommander la lecture de cet ouvrage, en raison non seulement de la qualité des textes recueillis, mais aussi de l’art avec lequel ils ont été organisés, sous l’égide des trois responsables éditoriaux, qui sont aussi les auteurs des articles ponctuant chacune des trois parties." – Florence Godeau, Série « Samuel Beckett » 4, Lettres Modernes Minard