Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474419000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Christopher Langlois

Opis

Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first of all Beckett's, encounters the language of terror, thereby giving new significance - ethical, ontological, and political - to what speaks in Beckett's texts.

Spis treści

Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics, and Literature; 1. The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable; 2. The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing; 3. The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror; 4. The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho; Coda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror.