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. Readers will see how Beckett's characters who
wish to narrate their own deaths incorporate silence into their
speech. Astro concludes with a discussion of Stirrings Still,
Beckett's last text, in which he evokes his own impending demise.
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