Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing
Laura Salisbury
Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representation
Samuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable seriousness of the post-Holocaust situation. How can these two statements sit together?
Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama, and critical writings, and including readings of Murphy, the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the late prose, and the late plays, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the same time, opening up a space for how it ought to be.
Year:
2012
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
074864749X
ISBN 13:
9780748647491
File:
PDF, 7.55 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012