this essay about transference between media is thus mis-titled twice over: it is neither an
issue of genre, nor necessarily ‘transgression’. The suspicion of strict separations has long
been a feature of Beckett Studies as well, of course, and can be traced first to Beckett’s own
caution that opens his essay on Joyce:‘the danger is in the neatness of identifications’(1984b:
19). In the criticism, Gontarski has argued on multiple occasions for reading a ‘generic …