{"product_id":"residual-figuration-in-samuel-beckett-lin-li-9781781886663","title":"Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) began writing plays, first \u003cem\u003eEleutheria\u003c\/em\u003e and then \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/em\u003e. When they came together in 1961 to collaborate on a re-staging of Godot, both had turned their attention to different types of figures: Giacometti to lanky, attenuated figures that seem to erode into their environment, and Beckett to increasingly disembodied characters, such as Henry and Ada in \u003cem\u003eEmbers\u003c\/em\u003e. What can we make of this turn in depicting figures that seem to make and unmake themselves in our processes of perceiving them? Through a close examination of Beckett's dramatic works and Giacometti's art, Lin Li traces the development of this peculiar type of figuration and uncovers its implications on personhood, rhetoric and inter-medial reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLin Li is research associate at the University of Antwerp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lin Li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781886660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781886663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.27d","brand":"Lin Li","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136671400191,"sku":"9781781886663","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10544160-e3e6-4061-a882-eef8fd44a94e.jpg?v=1755024040","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/residual-figuration-in-samuel-beckett-lin-li-9781781886663","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}