Samuel Beckett's How It Is: Philosophy in Translation

ISBN-13: 9781474440608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Anthony Cordingley

Opis

This book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Series Editor’s Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Poetics of Translation: Dante, Gœthe and the Paideia; 2. Pythagorean Mysticism / Democritean Wisdom; 3. The Physical Cosmos: Aristotelian Dialectics; 4. A Comedy of Ethics: From Plato to Christian Asceticism (Via Rembrandt); 5. Mystic Paths, Inward Turns; 6. Pascal’s Miraculous Tongue; 7. Spinoza, Leibniz, or a World “Less Exquisitely Organized”; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index.