Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism

ISBN-13: 9783838213699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Andy Wimbush

Recenzje

"Andy Wimbush presents a refreshingly clear and evidentially powerful analysis of Samuel Beckett's interest in, temperamental affinity with, and artistic transformation of, quietist doctrine. That 'happy melancholy' has been neglected for too long in Beckett's work. For Wimbush, the 'serenity and despair' Beckett's found in quietism provides for compelling, chapter-length readings of Murphy, Molloy, How It Is and the late prose. Also impressive is the wide-ranging identification of Beckett's influences, from novelists like Gide and Dostoevsky to metaphysicians like Schopenhauer and, most strikingly, Haeckel. This is splendid work and, although surely deserving of a wider readership, is an absolute must for all Beckettians."-Dr Matthew Feldmann "This is the first sustained study of the way in which quietism fundamentally shaped Beckett's aesthetic and creative enterprise. Wimbush leaves no stone unturned in charting Beckett's engagement with quietist thought, which he subsequently turns into new readings of Beckett's work. This book is indispensable for any reader who has wondered about the origins of Beckett's art of failure."-Dr Mark Nixon, Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading

O autorze

Andy Wimbush teaches twentieth-century and contemporary literature at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. He is the author of several articles on Samuel Beckett's work and its relationship to religion, philosophy, ecology, modernism, and aesthetics in The Journal of Beckett Studies, Literature and Theology, and various academic books.