Samuel Beckett - Rilegato

Kennedy, Andrew Karpati

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0521254825 ISBN 13: 9780521254823

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Riassunto

While providing a critical introduction for the student of Samuel Beckett's work and for other readers and theatre-goers who have been influenced by it, this study also presents an original perspective on one of the twentieth century's greatest writers of prose fiction and drama. Andrew Kennedy links Beckett's vision of a diminished humanity with his art of formally and verbally diminished resources, and traces the fundamental simplicity and coherence of Beckett's work beneath its complex textures. In the section on the plays, Dr Kennedy stresses the humour and tragicomic humanism alongside the theatrical effectiveness; and in a discussion of the fiction (the celebrated trilogy of novels) he relates the relentless diminution of 'story' to the diminishing selfhood of the narrator. An introduction outlines the personal, cultural and specifically literary contexts of Beckett's writing, while a concluding chapter offers up-to-date reflections on his œuvre, from the point-of-view of the themes highlighted throughout the book. This study, complete with a chronological table and a guide to further reading, will prove stimulating for both new and advanced students of Beckett.

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Contenuti

Acknowledgements; Selective chronology of life and works; Introduction; Ireland Paris Vision and form: the tightening knot; Part I. The Plays: 1. Waiting for Godot; 2. Endgame; 3. Krapp's Last Tape; 4. Happy Days; Part II. The Trilogy of Novels: 6. Molloy; 7. Malone Dies; 8. The Unnamable; Part III. Concluding Reflections; Notes and references; Details of works discussed for further study.

Product Description

Book by Kennedy Andrew Karpati

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521254825
• ISBN 13: 9780521254823
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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