José Francisco Fernández is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Almería. His most recent work focuses on the narrative of Samuel Beckett and his reception in Spain: Samuel Beckett en España (University of Valladolid, 2020). He has co-edited (with Nadia Louar) vol. 30 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (2018), devoted to the poetics of bilingualism in Samuel Beckett. He has also translated into Spanish three novels and three separate short stories by Samuel Beckett. His translation of Stories and Texts for Nothing was awarded with the 2016 Best Translation Award given by the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. He teaches Anglo-Irish literature in the Master’s Degree in English Studies at the Spanish Distance Education University (UNED) and has been general editor of the journal Estudios Irlandeses. He has published articles on Beckett’s work in a number of specialized journals, including the Journal of Beckett Studies, Journal of the Short Story in English, Babel, Anglia, AUMLA and Studi Irlandesi, among others. Mar Garre García is a doctoral researcher (Gerty Cori Fellow) at the University of Almería, where she combines teaching tasks with her doctoral dissertation on Samuel Beckett’s poetry. Her publications include articles on Beckett’s poems in Beckettiana, Complutense Journal of English Studies and Babel Afial, among other journals.

This excellent collection of critical essays revitalises the study of one of the most vexed questions in Beckett Studies – the role played by Beckett’s bilingualism in the shaping of his texts. Collectively the contributors map out new and exciting ways to approach and understand Beckett’s complex strategies of translation and self-translation.

• Notes on contributorsIntroduction, José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García SECTION I. BECKETT’S SELF-TRANSLATIONS1. ‘" … bouche en feu … "’. A Genetic Manuscript Study of Samuel Beckett’s Self-Translation of Not I’, Shane O’Neill2. ‘Tracing Translation: The Genesis of Comédie and Film (fr)’, Olga Beloborodova3. ‘The Self-Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, Waqas Mirza4. ‘Vagaries of Bilingualism. A Curious Case of Beckett’s Translations of his Own Poems’, Sławomir Studniarz5. ‘Literal Translation vs. Self-Translation: The Beckett-Pinget Collaboration on the Radio Play Cendres (Embers)’, Pim VerhulstSECTION II. BECKETT’S TRANSLATIONS OF OTHER AUTHORS6. ‘Esperando a Goethe: Translation, Humanism, and "Message from Earth"’, Patrick Bixby7. ‘"A stone of sun": José Juan Tablada’s Poems in Samuel Beckett’s Translation’, María José Carrera8. ‘Translation’s Challenge to Lyric’s Immediacy: Beckett’s Rimbaud’, Amanda Dennis9. ‘"Are Beckett’s Texts Bilingual? "Long after Chamfort" and Translation’, Matthijs EngelbertsSECTION III. BECKETT’S POETICS OF TRANSLATION10. "Au plaisir: Beckett and the Neatness of Identifications", John Pilling11. ‘A Poetics of the Doppelgänger: Beckett as Self-Translator’, Dirk Van Hulle12. "Tuning Absent Pianos: Watt and the Poetics of Translation", Fábio De Souza Andrade13. "‘The absolute impossibility of all purchase’: Property and Translation in Beckett’s Postwar Prose", Martin SchaussSECTION IV. COMMENTARY‘Some Remarks on a Sentence in A Piece of Monologue’, Antoni Libera‘The Third Language of Translation’, Gabriele Frasca‘From All That Fall to Stirrings Still’, Alan W. Friedman. ‘Beckett Translating’, Erika TophovenIndex

José Francisco Fernández is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Almería. His most recent work focuses on the narrative of Samuel Beckett and his reception in Spain: Samuel Beckett en España (University of Valladolid, 2020). He has co-edited (with Nadia Louar) vol. 30 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (2018), devoted to the poetics of bilingualism in Samuel Beckett. He has also translated into Spanish three novels and three separate short stories by Samuel Beckett. His translation of Stories and Texts for Nothing was awarded with the 2016 Best Translation Award given by the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. He teaches Anglo-Irish literature in the Master’s Degree in English Studies at the Spanish Distance Education University (UNED) and has been general editor of the journal Estudios Irlandeses. He has published articles on Beckett’s work in a number of specialized journals, including the Journal of Beckett Studies, Journal of the Short Story in English, Babel, Anglia, AUMLA and Studi Irlandesi, among others. Mar Garre García is a doctoral researcher (Gerty Cori Fellow) at the University of Almería, where she combines teaching tasks with her doctoral dissertation on Samuel Beckett’s poetry. Her publications include articles on Beckett’s poems in Beckettiana, Complutense Journal of English Studies and Babel Afial, among other journals.

This excellent collection of critical essays revitalises the study of one of the most vexed questions in Beckett Studies – the role played by Beckett’s bilingualism in the shaping of his texts. Collectively the contributors map out new and exciting ways to approach and understand Beckett’s complex strategies of translation and self-translation.

• Notes on contributorsIntroduction, José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García SECTION I. BECKETT’S SELF-TRANSLATIONS1. ‘" … bouche en feu … "’. A Genetic Manuscript Study of Samuel Beckett’s Self-Translation of Not I’, Shane O’Neill2. ‘Tracing Translation: The Genesis of Comédie and Film (fr)’, Olga Beloborodova3. ‘The Self-Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, Waqas Mirza4. ‘Vagaries of Bilingualism. A Curious Case of Beckett’s Translations of his Own Poems’, Sławomir Studniarz5. ‘Literal Translation vs. Self-Translation: The Beckett-Pinget Collaboration on the Radio Play Cendres (Embers)’, Pim VerhulstSECTION II. BECKETT’S TRANSLATIONS OF OTHER AUTHORS6. ‘Esperando a Goethe: Translation, Humanism, and "Message from Earth"’, Patrick Bixby7. ‘"A stone of sun": José Juan Tablada’s Poems in Samuel Beckett’s Translation’, María José Carrera8. ‘Translation’s Challenge to Lyric’s Immediacy: Beckett’s Rimbaud’, Amanda Dennis9. ‘"Are Beckett’s Texts Bilingual? "Long after Chamfort" and Translation’, Matthijs EngelbertsSECTION III. BECKETT’S POETICS OF TRANSLATION10. "Au plaisir: Beckett and the Neatness of Identifications", John Pilling11. ‘A Poetics of the Doppelgänger: Beckett as Self-Translator’, Dirk Van Hulle12. "Tuning Absent Pianos: Watt and the Poetics of Translation", Fábio De Souza Andrade13. "‘The absolute impossibility of all purchase’: Property and Translation in Beckett’s Postwar Prose", Martin SchaussSECTION IV. COMMENTARY‘Some Remarks on a Sentence in A Piece of Monologue’, Antoni Libera‘The Third Language of Translation’, Gabriele Frasca‘From All That Fall to Stirrings Still’, Alan W. Friedman. ‘Beckett Translating’, Erika TophovenIndex

José Francisco Fernández is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Almería. His most recent work focuses on the narrative of Samuel Beckett and his reception in Spain: Samuel Beckett en España (University of Valladolid, 2020). He has co-edited (with Nadia Louar) vol. 30 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (2018), devoted to the poetics of bilingualism in Samuel Beckett. He has also translated into Spanish three novels and three separate short stories by Samuel Beckett. His translation of Stories and Texts for Nothing was awarded with the 2016 Best Translation Award given by the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. He teaches Anglo-Irish literature in the Master’s Degree in English Studies at the Spanish Distance Education University (UNED) and has been general editor of the journal Estudios Irlandeses. He has published articles on Beckett’s work in a number of specialized journals, including the Journal of Beckett Studies, Journal of the Short Story in English, Babel, Anglia, AUMLA and Studi Irlandesi, among others. Mar Garre García is a doctoral researcher (Gerty Cori Fellow) at the University of Almería, where she combines teaching tasks with her doctoral dissertation on Samuel Beckett’s poetry. Her publications include articles on Beckett’s poems in Beckettiana, Complutense Journal of English Studies and Babel Afial, among other journals.

This excellent collection of critical essays revitalises the study of one of the most vexed questions in Beckett Studies – the role played by Beckett’s bilingualism in the shaping of his texts. Collectively the contributors map out new and exciting ways to approach and understand Beckett’s complex strategies of translation and self-translation.

• Notes on contributorsIntroduction, José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García SECTION I. BECKETT’S SELF-TRANSLATIONS1. ‘" … bouche en feu … "’. A Genetic Manuscript Study of Samuel Beckett’s Self-Translation of Not I’, Shane O’Neill2. ‘Tracing Translation: The Genesis of Comédie and Film (fr)’, Olga Beloborodova3. ‘The Self-Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy’, Waqas Mirza4. ‘Vagaries of Bilingualism. A Curious Case of Beckett’s Translations of his Own Poems’, Sławomir Studniarz5. ‘Literal Translation vs. Self-Translation: The Beckett-Pinget Collaboration on the Radio Play Cendres (Embers)’, Pim VerhulstSECTION II. BECKETT’S TRANSLATIONS OF OTHER AUTHORS6. ‘Esperando a Goethe: Translation, Humanism, and "Message from Earth"’, Patrick Bixby7. ‘"A stone of sun": José Juan Tablada’s Poems in Samuel Beckett’s Translation’, María José Carrera8. ‘Translation’s Challenge to Lyric’s Immediacy: Beckett’s Rimbaud’, Amanda Dennis9. ‘"Are Beckett’s Texts Bilingual? "Long after Chamfort" and Translation’, Matthijs EngelbertsSECTION III. BECKETT’S POETICS OF TRANSLATION10. "Au plaisir: Beckett and the Neatness of Identifications", John Pilling11. ‘A Poetics of the Doppelgänger: Beckett as Self-Translator’, Dirk Van Hulle12. "Tuning Absent Pianos: Watt and the Poetics of Translation", Fábio De Souza Andrade13. "‘The absolute impossibility of all purchase’: Property and Translation in Beckett’s Postwar Prose", Martin SchaussSECTION IV. COMMENTARY‘Some Remarks on a Sentence in A Piece of Monologue’, Antoni Libera‘The Third Language of Translation’, Gabriele Frasca‘From All That Fall to Stirrings Still’, Alan W. Friedman. ‘Beckett Translating’, Erika TophovenIndex