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1.Ohno!Notagain
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Gombrowiczscholartoday,alsopointsoutthatHitisdifficulttowrite
somethingradicallydifferentaboutGombrowicz”[2007:16].
InBeckettcriticism,withregardstohisprosefiction,wecandiffer-
entiatebetween:
1.PhilosophicalBeckett(PascaleCasanova,RubyCohn,Hans-
JoachimSchulz,AnthonyUhlmann,WolfgangIser,GeorgeBataille,
MauriceBlanchot).
2.StructuralBeckett(WojciechKalaga,H.PorterAbbott,Thomas
G.Pavel).
3.LiteraryBeckett(intertextualityandthelike)(LeslieHill,Eugene
Webb,JohnFletcher,AlfredAlvarez,JohnBolin,AndrewKenne-
dy,RubinRabinovitz).
4.PoststructuralBeckett(StevenConnor,DanielKatz,AnthonyUhl-
mann,JamesH.Reid,RaymondFederman).
5.PostcolonialBeckett(PaulBixby).
6.PsychoanalyticalBeckett(JakubMomro,RubinRabinovitz,James
DonaldO’Hara,JosephH.Smith,StevenBarker).
7.DeconstructiveBeckett(SimonCritchley,LeoBersani).
Again,thislistofwhatKatzreferstoasHBecketts”isbynomeans
finite[seeAbbott1996:22-51;Tucker2014:16-19].Itcouldeasilybeex-
tendedwithsub-sections;forexample,theHphilosophicalBeckett”could
includeHphenomenologicalBeckett”(PaulA.Bové)andDerridianBeck-
ett(ThomasTrezise).OthersubsectionsmightbeHbiblicalBeckett”or
HcognitiveBeckett”(MarcoBernini,Abbott).Ultimately,itseemsreason-
abletoaskthesamequestionasHillinastudyfrom1990,HWhatremains
tobesaid?”[1990:ix].
Admittedly,GombrowiczandBeckettstudiesaresoabundantand
multifariousthatwritingaboutbothwritersisallbutimpossible.How-
ever,ifsuchanegativeattitudemightmakesenseinaprojectdedicated
solelytoGombrowiczortoBeckett,aprojectonbothoftheminone
studyisonenevertohaveemergedbefore.Comparisonsbetweenboth
writers,usuallyinthecontextoftheirdramas,havebeenmade,butin
passing(forexampleseeGombrowicznaszwspółczesny).Moreover,as
canbeseenfromtheaboveenumerations,Hcriticalstudies”ofbothseem
tosufferfromoneHdisease:”arelativedeficiencyinstrictlyformalinves-
tigations.ByformalImeanthosewhichaddresstheformandfunction
ofstructureandcompositionofaparticularworkofprosefiction,not
theexaminationofthenotionofGombrowiczanForm.Also,withregard
