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‘The Young Fellow of Trinity College’: Beckett, Berkeley, and the Genesis of Murphy

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12210%2F23%3A43907090" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12210/23:43907090 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jobs.2023.0401?role=tab" target="_blank" >https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jobs.2023.0401?role=tab</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2023.0401" target="_blank" >10.3366/jobs.2023.0401</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    ‘The Young Fellow of Trinity College’: Beckett, Berkeley, and the Genesis of Murphy

  • Original language description

    The article revisits the reference to the 18th century Irish philosopher George Berkeley in Samuel Beckett&apos;s first published novel, Murphy. Previous scholarship assumed that references to Berkeley&apos;s theory of immaterialism were inherent to the novel&apos;s exploration of the relations between the mind and the world. However a comparison of the novel&apos;s manuscript, typescript and the final printed version reveals that they were a relatively late addition. As Beckett was typing up the manuscript in June 1936 he expanded on a previous cryptic allusion to Berkeley, and added two more. Beckett&apos;s reluctance to engage with Berkeley in the earlier version may be due in part to his scepticism towards the Irish Revival which adopted the famous philosopher as a national model for Irish thinking. It was Beckett&apos;s reading of Arnold Geulincx in 1936, it is argued, that made him revisit Berkeley&apos;s views and contrast them with Geulingian ethics which he viewed more favourably. The first reference to Berkeley in the published novel echoes a comparison he made between him and Arnold Geulincx in a letter to McGreevy, highlighting the relevance of this reference point for Beckett&apos;s treatment of Berkeley. The denial that Murphy&apos;s mind was ‘involved in the idealist tar’ is shown to be subsequent to Beckett&apos;s reading of Geulincx. Finally, the reference to ‘percipi’ and ‘percipere’ in the description of Murphy&apos;s state following his game of chess with Mr. Endon is correlated with Geulincx&apos;s ethics to suggest that, however briefly, Murphy becomes aware of his own impotence.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60206 - Specific literatures

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Beckett Studies

  • ISSN

    0309-5207

  • e-ISSN

    1759-7811

  • Volume of the periodical

    32

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    16

  • Pages from-to

    145-161

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85174731743