The short text Imagination Dead Imagine (1966) by Samuel Beckett offers a both poetic and plastic experiment. The clear definition of bodies and identities, or even of the status of the work, is questioned and constantly reinvented. Between affect and plasticity, an excess appears which leads us to understand Beckett's minimalism otherwise, and to achieve, through its reading, a paradoxical saturation.
Samuel Beckett; excess; affect; plasticity