Samuel Beckett and the terror of literature / Christopher Langlois.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Langlois, Christopher, author.

Series:

• Other Becketts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
• Terror in literature.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

A sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of terror, 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, III Seen III Said and Worstward Ho. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interpolation 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable 41
• 2 The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing 96
• 3 The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror 139
• 4 The Terror of Passivity in Company, III Seen III Said and Worstward Ho 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index.

ISBN:

• 9781474419000
• 1474419003

OCLC:

970683430