Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett – Des écrivains en proie à la faille du langage

Abstract

Virginia Woolf, an Englishwoman born in 1882, and Samuel Beckett, an Irishman born in 1906, have one thing in common: language, or more precisely, the discomfort they experience when confronting language. This article looks at the approaches taken by the authors to create a verbal work that rises, paradoxically, from the rift - the word - that constitutes it. The poetic orientation of the word is the first of these approaches, followed by its pictorial and musical orientations.  Virginia Woolf, an Englishwoman born in 1882, and Samuel Beckett, an Irishman born in 1906, have one thing in common: language, or more precisely, the discomfort they experience when confronting language. This article looks at the approaches taken by the authors to create a verbal work that rises, paradoxically, from the rift - the word - that constitutes it. The poetic orientation of the word is the first of these approaches, followed by its pictorial and musical orientations.  Virginia Woolf, an Englishwoman born in 1882, and Samuel Beckett, an Irishman born in 1906, have one thing in common: language, or more precisely, the discomfort they experience when confronting language. This article looks at the approaches taken by the authors to create a verbal work that rises, paradoxically, from the rift - the word - that constitutes it. The poetic orientation of the word is the first of these approaches, followed by its pictorial and musical orientations. &nbsp