Abstract
In Beckett’s late prose, closed space is a precondition for creation, as it enables a self-reflexivity that Merleau-Ponty associates with sentience. Chapter Seven begins with a discussion of Merleau-Ponty’s late ontology of the flesh, then turns to Beckett’s Worstward Ho, which invents a peculiar language and takes spatial direction as its theme. I argue that the self-referential language of Worstward Ho (phrases vary their precedents according to a pattern) shares the self-reflexivity of the flesh described by Merleau-Ponty. Words and phrases, as part of the ‘flesh’ of language, unmake and remake meaning as they unmake and remake the text’s human forms, joining the project of world-creation in language to the more general project of being.
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