Talk: "On Fragments: A Piece of Art and the ‘I’—or Not"

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S. E. Gontarski is the author of many books and edited volumes on the work of Samuel Beckett. His writings include The Intent of Undoing in Samuel Beckett’s Dramatic Texts (Indiana UP), Happy Days: A Manuscript Study (Ohio State UP), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (Edinburgh UP), and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (Bloomsbury). He is the editor of The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Vol. III: “Endgame” and Vol. IV: “The Shorter Plays” (Faber and Faber/Grove).

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Gontarski worked on theater productions with Samuel Beckett in the 1980s. His recent productions include short laboratory films of ...but the clouds... and Ohio Impromptu. He also arranged and directed an original film inspired by Beckett's works called Beckett on the Baltic.

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A renowned Beckett scholar, he has published on other modernist writers. His most recent books include Burroughs Unbound: William Burroughs and the Performance of Writing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater (Anthem Impact Books, 2021).

 

He teaches at Florida State University, where he is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English.

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