Abstract
Beckett's reviews of the 1930s witness his wide-ranging interests: from painting and music to literature. Although Beckett criticism has not yet developed a comprehensive examination of them, these writings indicate his radical interrogation of the historical condition of literary movements in the 20 century. The purpose of the present paper is to identify an underlying thematic element in these seemingly disparate essays. By focusing on the ideas of fragmentation and jux- taposition, I will explore Beckett's preoccupation with an insistent rejection of the reductionism which symbolically unifies the works into a unitary and essential meaning.
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