Vetanda led me to this beautiful presentation by Jeremy Irons of Ohio Impromptu Ohio Impromptu, directed by Charles Sturridge, with Jeremy Irons (2000) Synopsis Ohio Impromptu, written in 1980, opens with a figure clad in black with long white hair hiding his face and sitting on a white chair at a white table. There are two characters, the Reader and the Listener….
Category: Beckett
Synchronicity
Yesterday I got worried when finding traces & hints of Samuel Beckett, a great favourite of mine, in my own writing. (Beckett really is a figure one wouldn’t try to imitate – bla – bla – bla). Today, a happy day of strange coincidences (Jung would probably call it synchronicity*), I read this in Mary Oliver’s A…
An old friend
Back to Beckett 11 years ago I finished my cand.philol. in comparative literature with a dissertation on Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy (Molloy (1951), Malone meurt (1951; Malone Dies) and L’innommable (1953: The Unnamable)). Since then I have read very little Beckett. My reading has trailed other routes. But this autumn, when going deeper into writing, Beckett…
sub rosa 