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Understanding Samuel Beckett

Understanding Samuel Beckett

Astro, Alan

Paperback

Series: Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1611170044
ISBN13: 9781611170047
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Feb 25 2011
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Understanding Samuel Beckett presents an overview of the work of the Irish author whose most famous novels and plays-Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot, and Endgame-are discussed in depth, alongside some less known earlier texts and later, shorter pieces. Alan Astro pays particular attention to Beckett's relationship with other authors (Dante, Joyce, Proust), his debt to philosophers (Sartre, Descartes, Pascal), his bilingualism, the psychoanalytic texture of his writing, and his manipulation of the first-person pronoun. Astro concludes with a discussion of Stirrings Still, Beckett's last text, in which he evokes his own impending demise.

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