Download or read book The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Company/Compagnie'. written by Georgina Nugent-Folan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest BDMP volume discusses Samuel Beckett's late prose text 'Company/Compagnie'. 'Company' was first composed in English between the years 1977 and 1979, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, 'Compagnie', was translated in only two weeks, in August 1979, yet the French came into print in early 1980, some months before the English 'original'. Both texts emerged during a period of intense theatre work for Beckett, and the composition of 'Company' in particular appeared to offer Beckett a degree of respite from his theatre commitments,with the text at times appearing to take on the role of a companion, not unlike the relationship between the hearer and voice depicted therein. 'Company' sees Beckett adopt and abide by a rigorous predetermined plan laid out across four schemata, a plan that encompassed the entire text on a paragraph-by-paragraph level. This distinguishes it from Beckett's approach towards the composition of texts such as 'Molloy' or 'Malone meurt'. The genetic critical analysis of the manuscripts of 'Company/Compagnie' takes this schema-dependent compositional method as its core focus. It forwards a new hypothesis regarding the genetic map of both works, and considers the relationship between this uniquely entwined 'original' and 'translation'. 00.