Beckett and Leopardi - Couverture souple

Boxall, Peter; Nicholls, Peter

 
9781009431002: Beckett and Leopardi

Synopsis

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence. In doing so, the Element looks past the impasse – between going on and not going on – that threatens to forestall imaginative possibilities for both writers.

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9781009547918: Beckett and Leopardi

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ISBN 10 :  1009547917 ISBN 13 :  9781009547918
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025
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