Watt by Samuel Beckett
"Samuel Beckett's Watt [is] a text that signals Beckett's crucial turn into a fully 'hermeneutic' mode of writing, a writing, that is, which thematizes, and ultimately parodies, the problematics of interpretation even as it offers itself in protracted seriousness as interpretable object. The process of reading through this thematization--a process I call metahermeneutics-- ultimately places the reader in specular relation to Watt, ultimately compels the reader to balance his or her hermeneutic desire against the exigencies of Watt's own interpretive praxis" (149).
Boulter, Jonathan Stuart. "'Delicate Questions:' Hermeneutics and Beckett's Watt." Samuel Beckett Today/ Samuel Beckett Aujourd'hui 6 (1997): 149-163. Web. 1 October 2012.
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