Understanding Samuel Beckett - Couverture souple

Astro, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611170044 ISBN 13 : 9781611170047

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2011

Synopsis

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. Readers will see how Beckett's characters who wish to narrate their own deaths incorporate silence into their speech. Astro concludes with a discussion of Stirrings Still, Beckett's last text, in which he evokes his own impending demise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Astro is a professor of French language, literature, and culture at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and the author of Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611170044
• ISBN 13: 9781611170047
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible