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Understanding Samuel Beckett presents an overview of the work of the Irish author whose most famous novels and plays-Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot, and Endgame-are discussed in depth, alongside some less known earlier texts and later, shorter pieces. Alan Astro pays particular attention to Beckett's relationship with other authors (Dante, Joyce, Proust), his debt to philosophers (Sartre, Descartes, Pascal), his bilingualism, the psychoanalytic texture of his writing, and his manipulation of the first-person pronoun. Astro concludes with a discussion of Stirrings Still,...

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation--the children of survivors--to a contemporary generation of grandchildren of survivors--those writers who have come of literary age at a time that will mark the end of direct survivor testimony. This collection, in drawing upon a variety of approaches and perspectives, suggests the rich and fluid range of...