Comparing his own work to that of his mentor, Samuel Beckett said, “Joyce is a putter-inner, and I’m a taker-outer.” For Beckett, art was contractive, not expansive: a delving into the self and the repudiation of all that lay outside it. In this sense, the outer world was not merely unnecessary, but might even prove [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:50AM on July 5, 2011