Vient de paraître : "Beckett and French war propaganda: A new source for 'Waiting for Godot

Reference

Jean-Michel Gouvard, "Beckett and French war propaganda: A new source for Waiting for Godot", Journal of Romance Studies, 19.1, 2019, pp.1-22.

Abstract

In this article, I demonstrate that the Second World War has had a stronger bearing on Waiting for Godot than has previously been suggested. I shall do so by focusing on the differences in terms of place names, stock phrases and puns in Beckett’s French and English versions of the play. Through analysis of new documentary evidence, I will show that the French Godot contains several allusions to Pétain’s ideology and Vichy propaganda which have remained unnoticed until now, and which has been erased in the translation process from French to English

Keywords

Beckett, French Literature, Vichy, Modernism, World War II, propaganda.

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