Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett - Couverture rigide

Cixous, Hélène

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745644155 ISBN 13 : 9780745644158

Editeur : Polity Press, 2010

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Although a slim book, each page flairs wildly with linguisticplay: puns, double entendres, and off–rhymes, a collapsing ofBeckett′s words with Cixous′s, a combinatory style, this is a stageof shadows looming near zero, near nothing or near death or nearimmortality. Or perhaps closer to the infinite."
Review of Contemporary Fiction

"A fascinating meditation by one wordsmith on another: Cixous′stext reflects not only on Beckett and her relations to his work butalso on the very nature of translation itself."
Christina Howells

"′Precious little,′ quotes Cixous from Beckett, finding theprecise intersection between her own expansive, luscious prose andBeckett′s stark and hilarious minimalism. Zero′s Neighbouris a fascinating and fantastic confrontation between two verydifferent, equally admirable, proponents of the art of living one′swriting out of the certainty of nothing."
Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University

"This book promises to become as influential in Beckett studiesas its author′s writings on Joyce proved to be for Joyce studies. Awork of poetry as much as of criticism by one great writer onanother, this text will be of interest to anyone concerned withquestioning the literary experience."
Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Zero′s Neighbour is Hélène Cixous′s tribute to theminimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness inhis writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. In this unabashedlypersonal odyssey through a sizeable range of his novels, plays andpoems, Cixous celebrates Beckett s linguistic flair and thepoignant, powerful thrust of his stylistic terseness, andpassionately declares her love for his unrivalled expression of themeaningless precious little of life, its unfathomablebanality ending in chaos and death. Poised between a critical essayand a textual performance across two languages adapting Beckett′sown literary vein, this book will appeal to scholars, critics andcreative writers as well as students of the greyself–Sam . Its allusive intertextual insights will also proveto be of critical relevance to readers of Dante and Proust, amongother literary figures, as much as to those appreciative ofCixous s own inimitable genius for dissecting thequintessence of the life and works of a neighbourly artist.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0745644155
• ISBN 13: 9780745644158
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 92