2 – Beckett & Fascism

In this episode, Conor Carville talks to Matthew Feldman, leading Beckettian and director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, about Beckett’s experiences of Fascism and Nazism, and their traces in his work. In a wide-ranging conversation, we begin by talking about the politics of Modernism, then go on to Beckett’s travels in Italy and Germany in the 20s and 30s, French Fascism, Fascism and Catholicism, Beckett’s WWII, Joyce, Nietzsche, German Romanticism, totalitarianism and many other topics. Intro and Outro Music: ‘Median Strip’ from Concrete Island, by The Heartwood Institute and Hawksmoor https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/concrete-island Bibliography Walter Adamson, Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (1993) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953) Samuel Beckett, Rough for Radio II (1961) Samuel Beckett, How It Is (1961) Matthew Feldman, Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies (2015) Matthew Feldman and Steven Matthews, Fascism's Cultural Crusader: Ezra Pound and International Fascism (forthcoming). Emily Morin, Beckett’s Political Imagination (2017) Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries (2011) Francis Stuart, The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart (2000) Pim Verhulst. Samuel Beckett and the Radio Medium (2021)

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