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IN SEARCH OF LOST IMAGE o> TERESA ROSELL NICOLAS ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work and its interconnections with Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Beckett’s early essay Proust not only sheds light on the French writer through his observation of the Proustian masterpiece, but also reveals certain aspects that will be relevant in Beckett’s later productions. In this sense, Krapp’s Last Tape and LImage, both written in 1958, prove to be especially fruitful, as they show traces of some problematic issues presented by the French author, such as time, habit and memory. Krapp’s Last Tape is considered to be Beckett's most Proustian and anti-Proustian piece, as it offers a reconfiguration of the concepts related to involuntary memory by subverting the Proustian enunciation and the treatment of the figure of the artist, that is, the vision of success and failure in the creative process." ! The title of this paper is taken from the article by Florence Godeau: Image premiere, image derniére, in Marcel Proust, Europe, Revue litteraire mensuelle 1012-1013 (September 2013), 155-163. 21.
