Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be
reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas
Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of
Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida.
Through extended comparisons of Beckett's trilogy of novels with
the writings of these thinkers, he emphasizes a "general economy"
of signification that both produces and dispossesses the
phenomenological self. Trezise shows how Beckett's work defines
literature as an instance within this economy and in so doing
challenges traditional conceptions of literature itself and of the
subject.
The undoing of historical time in an abyssal repetition, the
involvement of the subject with an impersonal alterity, the
priority of error, the understanding of art as an inspired
failure--at once an impossibility and an imperative rather than an
act of freedom and power--all underscore Beckett's contribution to
a form of thought radically irreducible to phenomenology as well as
to existential humanism. Trezise suggests that Beckett's own
literary corpus be considered an exploration of the breach that
this artistic failure opens in traditional philosophical approaches
to the human subject.
Originally published in 1990.
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