Benjamin Wilson has recently published two articles on the work of Samuel Beckett. The first, published in the latest edition of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, is entitled ‘ “Into What Nightmare Thingness Am I Fallen?”: Visual Agnosia in Beckett’s Four Novellas’. It explores how the narrators of Beckett’s four post-war nouvelles experience the perceptual disorder of visual agnosia and ends by considering the meaning of an agnosic mode of relationality as it applies to Beckett.
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The second article, ‘ “Vit (?) dans un monde de cauchemars et d’hallucinations”: Samuel Beckett, Oliver Sacks, and the post-encephalitic’, reads Beckett’s visions of posthumous and posthumanist life alongside Oliver Sacks’s account of the phenomenology of post-encephalitis lethargica (or ‘sleeping sickness’) presented in his medical history, Awakenings.
Link to article: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2026.2666177
Benjamin Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English.
