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Imagination Dead Imagine : ウィキペディア英語版
Imagination Dead Imagine
Imagination Dead Imagine is a short prose text by Samuel Beckett first published in French in ''Les Lettres nouvelles'' in 1965. Its first English publication was a translation in ''The Sunday Times'' in 1965 followed by a trade edition by Beckett's London-based publisher, Calder and Boyars, later that year.
== Plot ==
Developed as an offshoot of the longer prose work, ''All Strange Away'', and consistent with Beckett's preoccupation with cylinders and closed spaces in his work of the 1960s, the text explores "the theme of the dying imagination yet conscious of its own activity".〔Ackerley & Gontarski, 273.〕 Two white bodies are situated back to back inside a skull-like rotunda or vault. On the verge of extinction, the imagination of an unspecified being succeeds in imagining two bodies enclosed in a silent and motionless black and white environment subject to varying degrees of heat and cold with a brief interlude of grey.〔Knowlson, ''Damned to Fame'', 531.〕
According to the painter Avigdor Arikha, an intimate of the author, the rotunda was inspired by the Val-de Grâce church in Paris which Beckett could see from his study window. In an imaginative transposition of reality, Beckett reduced the actual dome to a skull-sized vault that "has the ring of bone to it".〔Knowlson, ''Damned to Fame'', 531.〕 The bodies of the two figures remain inert while their left eyes open in turn and stare for lengthy periods. The imagination of the invisible and nameless narrator constantly shifts position to examine, like a miniature camera, the two foetus-like figures in their stark environment. In effect, the figures "are like embryos waiting either for birth or for extinction".〔Knowlson, ''Damned to Fame'', 532.〕 The text ends with the identities of the two figures appearing to merge to form a "white speck lost in whiteness".〔Ackerley & Gontarski, 273.〕

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