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Samuel Beckett, ‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’, in Finnegans Wake: A Symposium - Our Exagmination Round His Incamination of Work in Progress (Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1929)

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Samuel Beckett, ‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’, in Finnegans Wake: A Symposium - Our Exagmination Round His Incamination of Work in Progress [... &c.] (Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1929; facs. rep. edn. NY: New Directions 1972), pp.1-22. The danger is in the neatness of identifications. The conception of Philosophy and Philology as a pair of nigger minstrels out of the Teatro dei Piccoli is soothing, like the contemplation of a carefully folded ham-sandwich. Giambattista Vico himself could not resist the attractiveness of such coincidence of gesture. He insisted on complete identification between the philosophical abstraction and the empirical illustration, thereby annulling the absolutism of each conception - hoisting the real unjustifiably clear of its dimensional limits, temporalising that which is extratemporal. And now here am I, with my handful of abstractions, among which notably: a mountain, the coincidence of contraries, the inevitability of cyclic evolution, a system of Poetics,

Samuel Beckett, 'Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce', in Finnegans Wake: A Symposium - Our Exagmination Round His Incamination of Work in Progress (Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1929) Samuel Beckett, ‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’, in Our Exagmination Round His Incamination of Work in Progress (1929) Bibliographical details : Samuel Beckett, ‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’, in Finnegans Wake: A Symposium - Our Exagmination Round His Incamination of Work in Progress [... &c .] (Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1929; facs. rep. edn. NY: New Directions 1972), pp.1-22. First issued by Shakespeare

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