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The Eye of the Beckettian Present

Sean Redmond and Matt Wagner Am I as much – Am I as much as…being seen? Samuel Beckett, Play (1963, p. 157) [1] In this article, we take up M’s closing question from Play, arguing that it is the central phenomenological conundrum in much of Beckett’s stage and screen work. The question we bring to Beckett’s oeuvre is: what is the relationship between perception and presence, …

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