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Understanding Samuel Beckett
Alan Astro
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Description for Understanding Samuel Beckett
Paperback. Series: Understanding Contemporary European and Latin American Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary European and Latin American Literature
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611170047
SKU
V9781611170047
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About Alan Astro
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.
Reviews for Understanding Samuel Beckett
Astro's effort is intended to be an introduction to Beckett and decidedly achieves that end. His own language is quite clear, and he enjoys a significant ability to analyze Beckett's work. . . . A very profitable reading.- Romance Quarterly; ""Admiring but not awed, Astro has written an unpretentious, imaginative, and thoughtful study of the recurring themes of alienation, ... Read more