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The qualifiers of master and disciple are sometimes used without conformity with their deep contents. They are more than simple denominations that some could assign here and there to bring honour to transmitter or to learner. Fraught with meaning in terms of abilities, human values, aims, these two words weigh by the density of the legacy and by the weight of the responsibility of transmission which they suggest, by the exceptional qualities which they involve and by the socio-emotional context which they generate. Therefore, any holder of knowledge does not necessarily reach the position of master, nor any aspiring to the knowledge does necessarily access to the position of disciple. Both in terms of the respective individualities and in terms of the constitution of a space-time of the meeting and of a social space-time, it is a matter of a certain eligibility. We will place it in this article, on the both plans of a personal and ethical eligibility and of a temporal and social eligibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: What are we subject of? This major question works the work of Beckett in such a stubborn way that the reader, witnessing a vital fight of which he does not perceive the challenge, is embarrassed. If the desire to rise the subject is the cause, how to localize it? Mindful not to deflect Beckett from his own personal approach, we will examine him through his reading of Proust. Whereas Proust purports to save love, Beckett saves the body. From this perspective, we will read Watt, Molloy and The Unnamable, focusing closely on the bodies and the way the objects, which will direct them in the space that they will define, are chosen. Becket does not deduce that these objects are assumed by a subject, or even that these objects imply a subject; he supposes a body which assumes a topological subject. Thus, by tracking the objects provided by the body, Beckett gets the subject''s saying. In doing so, one wonders if the subject of the science with Proust is not replaced by the body of the science with Beckett. Thus, Proust did not affect Beckett; his analysis has determined his ethical stance as shown. Yet, in writing, Beckett keeps on a subject still possible. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]