The World of Samuel Beckett - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801840791 ISBN 13 : 9780801840791

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

Synopsis

The World of Samuel Beckett brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's "Enough," Blau concedes that parts of the playwright's work can be lyrical and beguiling, but "it's still an appalling vision." Esslin (who coined the term "theater of the absurd") challenges the notion that Beckett is difficult or depressing, arguing instead that he is basically a comic writer, gallows humor thought it be. Angela Moorjani sees Beckett's writing as the product of a cryptic text inscribed within. Bennett Simon, a psychiatrist who has written extensively on Beckett, examines the self in current art and psychoanalysis. Joseph H. Smith emphasizes that Beckett, like Freud and Lacan, challenges any notions of "cure" as the easy achievement of happiness.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph H. Smith, M.D., is supervising and training analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and president of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. He is editor of Psychoanalysis and Religion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801840791
• ISBN 13: 9780801840791
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Smith Joseph H.
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