“Both Text and Gloss”: Hermeneutic Translatory Structures in Molloy and Waiting for Godot Open Access
Altobelli, Stephen (Spring 2022)
Abstract
This thesis reads Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy and play Waiting for Godot in tandem with Walter Benjamin’s theory of translation. I argue that translation manifests in both texts, and that it is this manifestation which explains the texts’ resistance to interpretation. This thesis begins by setting forth a theory of Samuel Beckett’s self-translation, which it argues is both de-familiarizing in the style of Benjamin and “hermeneutic” in the way that Lawrence Venuti uses the term. I then examine the ways in which this Beckettian translation manifest in the bifurcated works mentioned above, before examining the figure of the messenger, a character who appears in both works and reifies the complex relationship between translation and interpretation.
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Acknowledgments..................6
Introduction..................1
Chapter 1: Molloy..................10
Chapter 2: Waiting for Godot..................30
Coda..................49
Bibliography..................53
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