A Tongue Not Mine examines the significance of bilingualism, translation, and self-translation in the work of Samuel Beckett. After a mid-career adoption of French as a language of composition, Beckett continued to write in his native English as well as French, and to translate his work systematically, though often unfaithfully, between the two. This study focuses on how Beckett's self-translation, rather than being an ancillary, essentially practical task of linguistic transfer, emerges as an integral component of his work's exploration of uncertainty and exile, and its critique of the myth...
A Tongue Not Mine examines the significance of bilingualism, translation, and self-translation in the work of Samuel Beckett. After a mid-career adopt...