S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. His recent books include Przedstawienie Becketta: Eseje o Becketcie. Ed. Tomasz Wiśniewski and Miłosz Wojtyna (University of Gdańsk and Maski Press, 2016); Beckett’s “Happy Day:” A Manuscript Study (The Ohio State University Press, 2017); Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater (Anthem Press, 2021); (ed.) Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021); and, with Tomasz Wiśniewski and Katarzyna Kręglewska-Powązka (eds.), Włodzimierz Staniewski and the Phenomenon of “Gardzienice” (Routledge, 2021).
S. E. Gontarski
Contributions
A Cabinet of Curiosities: Bad Godots and Lucky’s Brain Science
Samuel Beckett was something of an accidental dramatist, or at least his earliest completed plays were written as something of a sideline, a diversion, a respite from the long narrative flights he was developing in something of a white heat in the aftermath of the Second World War, the grouping of French novels now loosely called The Trilogy.