Introductions Anthony Uhlmann: Negative Allegory: Buning on Allegory and the Via Negativa James Knowlson: Beckett and Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art Mary Bryden: Beckett, Maritain, and Merton: The Negative Way Chris Ackerley: The Ideal Real: A Frustrated Impulse in Samuel Beckett’s Writing John Pilling: The Uses of Enchantment: Beckett and the Fairy Tale Bruno Clément: Rire du pire Enoch Brater: Beckett’s Shades of the Color Gray Lois Oppenheim: Re-Visiting Stasis in the Work of Samuel Beckett Stan E. Gontarski: A Sense of Unending: Samuel Beckett’s Eschatological Turn Paul Lawley: The Excluded Child: Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Beckett’s Endgame Minako Okamuro: Beckett, Yeats, and Noh: …but the clouds… as Theatre of Evocation Dirk Van Hulle: Beckett’s Principle of Reversibility: Chiasmus and the “Shape of Ideas” Onno Kosters: “I Tell You Nothing is Known!” Watt as Beckett’s Parting with Joyce Angela Moorjani: André Gide Among the Parisian Ghosts in the “Anglo-Irish” Murphy Sjef Houppermans: Beckett et Proust: mimétisme et matérialisation des images Matthijs Engelberts: Et film devint littérature: “Un des plus beaux cauchemars” du combat entre littérature et cinéma Contributors / Auteurs