Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T05:58:26.449Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

John J. Mood and the Personal System-A Further Note on Samuel Beckett's Watt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Eric Park*
Affiliation:
University of Oregon
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Forum
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1973

References

Notes

1 John J. Mood, “ ‘The Personal System‘—Samuel Beckett's Watt,” PMLA, 86 (1971), 255–65.

2 Reference is to the fifth printing of Grove Press's first American edition (1959). For reasons shortly to become apparent, the particular American edition used is of crucial importance.

3 Watt, trans. Ludovic and Agnes Janvier, in collaboration with Beckett (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1968), p. 148.