Abstract
This paper examines the function and meaning of rivers, and other bodies of water, in Beckett's texts of the 1930s, concentrating in particular on . The specific use of rivers and by extension bridges as textual and structural devices in underlines the narrative's oscillations between movement and stasis, and prefigures Beckett's development of an aesthetic focusing on what the essay "Recent Irish Poetry" calls the "space that intervenes."
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