Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media)  has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (L. Oppenheim 2000; L. Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), posthumanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), and intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Beckett’s relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side and on Italian’s artists’ response to the Beckett’s oeuvre on the other is still missing. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett’s presence on contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an ‘Italian’ artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.

Davide Crosara (PhD, “Sapienza”) is Adjunct Professor of English at “Sapienza” Università di Roma. His main fields of interest are Shakespeare studies, Modernism, posthumanism and the interconnectedness between literature and science.

Mario Martino (PhD, Florence University) is Professor of English Literature, La Sapienza - University of Rome. His research interests include Elizabethan and seventeenth-century lyric, the Victorian novel, Modernism, Beckett, and literature and science.

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