Samuel Beckett and the Arts

Beckett's dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing criticalattention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name justtwo) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research hasprogressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issuesrelated to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism andtechnology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popularculture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Beckett'srelationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side-and on Italian artists' response toBeckett's oeuvre on the other-is still missing. The volume offers an original examination ofBeckett's presence on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genresand media. The reader will look at him as an "Italian" artist, in constant dialogue with themost significant modern European cultural turns.