Sadean Intertext and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Works

Elsa Baroghel, Independent researcher,

Elsa Baroghel is a writer, teacher, and researcher specialising in modern French and British literature, particularly the works of Samuel Beckett, on which she has published several papers and chapters. Her interests include the avant-garde, self-translation, madness and alienation in literature. She held a permanent position at Hertford College and St Peter's College as Lecturer in French language from 2019 to 2023, and was a Stipendiary Lecturer in French at St Hilda's College from 2016 to 2023. Her DPhil (University of Oxford, 2019) focused on Samuel Beckett's reception of the Marquis de Sade. She now lives in Toulouse, France.

Introduction1. A 'Kind of Metaphysical Ecstasy': (Re)Discovering Sade in the First Half of the Twentieth Century2. 'Freudian Blarney, Sodom and Begorrah': From Schopenhauer to Freud . . . with Sade3. Comment c'est and Les 120 Journées de Sodome: A Case-Study4. 'Si tant est que le noir les attende': Beckett's 'Gloom' and the Aesthetics of EvilConclusion: The Poetics of Imagination