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Walking with Angels in Giacometti and Beckett
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Fall 2007
- pp. 29-42
- 10.1353/esp.2007.0058
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What kind of knowledge is offered by art? This essay discusses Giacometti together with Beckett and Benjamin. Giacometti and Beckett are concerned with relations and their collapse: between persons, between memory and forgetting. Together, they prompt questions about the compatibility of space and time which, in Benjamin, show the difficulty of writing history without triumphalism.