The theme of the Witness in conjunction with the figure of the scribe treated this morning in the introduction to my essay on the characters of Krim & Kram. Both figures evoking the oral and the written tradition, and the subsequent hierarchy going on between the grapheme over the phoneme, langue over parole. As usual with Beckett, deeply rich material to attempt to uncover, Derrida and Heidegger both being invoked. Im really enjoying getting back to this text. Some day, who knows, might collect all the essays that Ive written about Comment Cest and put them altogether in a book.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:00:20 +0000