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Beckett's Creatures - Art of Failure after the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Beckett's Creatures - Art of Failure after the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in
ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing
that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a
'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first
full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose
and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic
existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess
the extent to which political value marks the divide between human
and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and drama,
particularly texts from the middle period, including Molloy, Malone
Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Anderton
explicates four arenas of creaturely life in Beckett. Each chapter
attends to a particular theme - testimony, power, humour and
survival - to analyse a range of pressures and impositions that
precipitate the creaturely state of suspension. Drawing on the
writings of Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida to
explore the overlaps between artistic and political structures of
creation, the creature emerges as an in-between figure that
bespeaks the provisional nature of the human. The result is a
provocative examination of the indirect relationship between art
and history through Beckett's treatment of testimony, power, humour
and survival, which each attest to the destabilisation of meaning
after Auschwitz.
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