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Видео и аудио: телетексты позднего С. Беккета
The article discusses Samuel Beckett’s short plays for television “Ghost Trio” (1976), “...but the clouds…” (1977), “Quad” (1984), and “Nacht und träume” (1984) as samples of tele-literature, where the presence and significance of words is related to the nonverbal components of the implied TV production. Plurimedial juxtapositions of music and text, the split between a character’s image and voice, the geometry of movement and stasis on paper and screen, and the indeterminacy of the video and audio dimensions of the broadcast world are the founding features of Beckett’s tele-theater. The close reading of Beckett’s TV texts sheds light on the generic differences between drama and TV play and underscores the performativity of a tele-literary reading experience.