Francois-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures) published an article titled, "" in the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh U.P.). The article analyzes how many of Samuel Beckett's texts rely on painterly aesthetics and techniques of avant-garde artists (Jack B. Yeats, the Van Velde brothers, Tal Coat) to create radically new modes of narration. It specifically focuses on the short text Imagination Dead Imagine (1965) to show how Beckett offers a new formulation of the problem of the subject-object relation and the self-to-self relation in artistic representation. It also examines how Beckett borrows from seventeenth-century Cartesian philosopher Arnold Geulincx to undermine the ethical precepts of Kantian autonomy and produce a dazzling vision of the radical atomization, ignorance, and opacity of the human condition.
