Deconfining Translation in Samuel Beckett's Le Dépeupleur and The Lost Ones

Le Depeupleur (1970), Samuel Beckett's short work of prose translated by the author himself as The Lost Ones (1972), crafts a scenario in which 200 bodies are confined to a squat cylinder with scant more than a square meter each and only the rumor of an exit. The confinement Beckett imposes on...

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Published inJournal of modern literature Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 130 - 146
Main Author Roberts, Trask
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.03.2023
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Beckett, Samuel
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
British & Irish literature
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French language
Irish literature
Language
Linguistics
Prose
Translation
Translations
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United Kingdom
France
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Summary:Le Depeupleur (1970), Samuel Beckett's short work of prose translated by the author himself as The Lost Ones (1972), crafts a scenario in which 200 bodies are confined to a squat cylinder with scant more than a square meter each and only the rumor of an exit. The confinement Beckett imposes on these dehumanized bodies goes beyond the spatial, and also manifests itself on temporal, linguistic, and narrative planes. Beckett's two versions of the text (English and French) engage each other in ways that both reinforce the confined nature of this fictional universe as well as generate possibilities for liberation.
ISSN:1529-1464
0022-281X
1529-1464
DOI:10.2979/jmodelite.46.3.08