Naming Beckett's unnamable

著者

• Adelman, Gary

書誌事項

Naming Beckett's unnamable

Gary Adelman

Bucknell University Press, c2004

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Naming Beckett's Unnamable examines Samuel Beckett's major prose (1946-1970) in a unique way - the Nouvelles, the trilogy, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, and The Lost Ones, as well as other remarkable, shorter pieces. Breaking new ground, Adelman does not profess affiliation to any school of Beckett criticism. The main point explored by Adelman is Beckett's debt to Kafka - the ways in which Kafka's stories, artistry, concerns, and life (as a literary persona) stand behind Beckett's prose. Kafka's struggle with spiritual deadlock helped Beckett, at crucial impasses in his own art, to find his way to Molloy and the trilogy, and later, to discern the importance of torture to the creative imagination, especially in How It Is. Adelman is sensitive to Holocaust images and tropes in Beckett's poetic language from the trilogy to The Lost Ones. Yet in The Unnamable Adelman also discovers, beneath the novelistic experimentation, a hero's quest for the sacredness of the self in a world become inimical to the sacred.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA68658681
• ISBN:
  • 0838755739
• LCCN: 2003012184
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lewisburg
• ページ数/冊数: 187 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 848/.91409
  • LCC : PQ2603.E378
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Beckett, Samuel, 1906- -- Prose