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‘My
fortieth year had come and gone and I still throwing the javelin’:
Beckett’s athletics
Steven Connor
Origin: Static Issue 01
Content: PDF
A paper given at the Beckett International Foundation Research
Seminar, University of Reading, 18 June 2005
“... Beckett was, throughout his life, an
unexpectedly enthusiastic player and spectator of games and sports.
Of course, the most well-known aspect of his athleticism is his
cricketing ability. He played for the school cricket XI at Earlsfort
House prep school, playing some of his matches on the Lansdowne
Road ground which is now the setting for Irish international rugby.
He found a place in the cricket team of Portora Royal School almost
immediately ...”
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Contributor:
Steven Connor is Professor of Modern Literature
and Theory at Birbeck College, London and Academic Director of
the London Consortium. He is a writer and broadcaster for radio
and the author of books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce and post-war
British fiction, as well as of Postmodernist
Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989, 2nd edn 1996), Theory
and Cultural Value (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), Dumbstruck:
A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000) and The Book of Skin
(London: Reaktion, 2003).
His book Fly is forthcoming
from Reaktion, and he is writing another book about the historical
poetics of the air. His website at
www.stevenconnor.com includes lectures, broadcasts, unpublished
work and work in progress.
Associated Links:
www.stevenconnor.com
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