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Beckett's Art of Mismaking
Leland de La Durantaye
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Description for Beckett's Art of Mismaking
Hardcover. Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future." Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett's novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. His works seem less to conclude than to stop dead. And so readers quite naturally ask: what might all this be meant to mean? In a lively and enlivening study of a singular creative nature, Leland de la Durantaye helps us better understand Beckett's strangeness and the notorious difficulties it presents. He argues ... Read more
Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett's novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. His works seem less to conclude than to stop dead. And so readers quite naturally ask: what might all this be meant to mean? In a lively and enlivening study of a singular creative nature, Leland de la Durantaye helps us better understand Beckett's strangeness and the notorious difficulties it presents. He argues ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674504851
SKU
V9780674504851
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About Leland de La Durantaye
Leland de la Durantaye is Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College.
Reviews for Beckett's Art of Mismaking
This book feels so different from almost every other book on Beckett. There are many insights, quick excursions, surprising allusions. The reader is a companion, part of a conversation, and the effect is very exciting, a sort of collaborative critical project. An intellectual adventure.
Michael Wood, Princeton University A fascinating account, both intelligent and irreverent
in the best sense of these words
of ... Read more
Michael Wood, Princeton University A fascinating account, both intelligent and irreverent
in the best sense of these words
of ... Read more