Author Description

<p><i>Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real </i>proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett's prose works. <br><br>Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett's prose works, including <i>How It Is</i>, <i>Company</i>, <i>Worstward </i><i>Ho</i>, <i>Malone </i><i>Dies</i> and <i>Enough</i> to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise.</p>