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John J. Mood and the Personal System-A Further Note on Samuel Beckett's Watt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Eric Park
Eric Park*
Affiliation:
University of Oregon
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PMLA , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , May 1973, pp. 529 - 530
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1973

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Notes

1 John J. Mood, “ ‘The Personal System‘—Samuel Beckett's Watt,” PMLA, 86 (1971), 255–65.

2 Reference is to the fifth printing of Grove Press's first American edition (1959). For reasons shortly to become apparent, the particular American edition used is of crucial importance.

3 Watt, trans. Ludovic and Agnes Janvier, in collaboration with Beckett (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1968), p. 148.