Aragon – Beckett

Crritics: Someone I don’t know posted on an Uyen Ly’s FB discussion about Samuel Beckett and I hurtled back down ‘that’ rabbit hole again, so am just putting this here because its late, and I have to imagine several impossible things before breakfast…(notes to assimilate later sort of thing): This is my response to Benjamin Klein, who made the initial learned reference to Beckett. So my reply: … – I saw the reference to “Beckett: “Crritic…” in your comment and thought – ahh yes, Louis Aragon, and recall that Aragon was close mates (ahem) with Nancy Cunard, who basically discovered Beckett, and was his first publisher…and that Beckett had translated Breton and Aragon from Revolution Surrealiste in 1932… but when I went to find the ‘crritic’ quote I remembered from Treatise on Style I found it is only in the (1991, Nebraska) English translation by Alyson Waters: ‘There is no rest for a critic. And a name like the parrot’s cry: crritic! crritic!’ (23) and it is not there in my French…

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