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Samuel Beckett's How it is - Philosophy in Translation (Paperback)
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Samuel Beckett's How it is - Philosophy in Translation (Paperback)
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The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of
twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett's How It Is 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. It
offers a clear pathway into this remarkable bilingual novel,
identifying Beckett's use of previously unknown sources in the
history of Western philosophy, from the ancient and modern periods,
and challenging critical orthodoxies. Through careful archival
scholarship and attention to the dynamics of self-translation, the
book traces Beckett's transformation of his narrator's 'ancient
voice', his intellectual heritage, into a mode of aesthetic
representation that offers the means to think beyond intractable
paradoxes of philosophy. This shift in the work's relation to
tradition marks a hiatus in literary modernism, a watershed moment
whose deep and enduring significance may now be appreciated. Key
Features Offers the first comprehensive treatment of Beckett's most
poorly understood novel, identifying the breadth of its
philosophical and literary sources Makes extensive use of
manuscript evidence and newly accessible notes from Beckett's
reading in philosophy Guides the reader through Beckett's
philosophical and theological sources, highlighting his innovative
and original dialectics between the pre-Socratics, Plato,
Aristotle, the Ancient Stoics, the early Church Fathers and desert
mystics, seventeenth-century mystics and Rationalists
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