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SBT/A 19 features selected papers from the Borderless Beckett / Beckett sans frontiÃ¨res Symposium held in Tokyo at Waseda University in 2006. The essays penned by eminent and young scholars from around the world examine the many ways Beckettâ€™s art crosses borders: coupling reality and dream, life and death, as in Japanese Noh drama, or transgressing distinctions between limits and limitlessness; humans, animals, virtual bodies, and stones; French and English; words and silence; and the received frameworks of philosophy and aesthetics.The highlight of the volume is the contribution by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, the special guest of the Symposium. His article entitled â€œEight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckettâ€ introduces a variety of novel approaches to Beckett, ranging from a comparative analysis of his work and Melvilleâ€™s Moby Dick to a biographical observation concerning Beckettâ€™s application for a lectureship at a South African university. Other highlights include innovative essays by the plenary speakers and panelists â€“ Enoch Brater, Mary Bryden, Bruno ClÃ©ment, Steven Connor, S. E. Gontarski, Evelyne Grossman, and Angela Moorjani â€“ and an illuminating section on Beckettâ€™s television dramas.The Borderless Beckett volume renews our awareness of the admirable quality and wide range of approaches that characterize Beckett studies.