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In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts, edited by
Ranjan Ghosh, PhD, puts together thirteen new essays on Beckett s
most popular and widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Chapters are
envisaged as dialogues with Godot, keeping in mind the event of
waiting and other issues related to this Godot-Waiting phenomenon.
The merit of this book lies in exploring this play from thirteen
fresh perspectives introducing some important themes that have not
been dealt previously. Contributors explore the play in reference
to topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva,
Derrida, the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in
structural reading, and anti-existentialism. Essays ask, can we
make claims to read this play outside the absurd tradition ? Is it
an anti-existential play? Can Beckett possibly be Indianised ? How
can the dialectic between waiting and delay be problematized? If
Beckett was up to de-structure conventional modes of drama-writing,
what connection could he possibly have with Aristotle and his
normative modes? Can the Vladimir-Estragon relationship be
critiqued psychoanalytically? Can questions of political commitment
be challenged anew, resisting easy propositions to considering it a
Resistance play? Can the Godot / Resistance collocation be examined
through torture (the series of beatings that structures the play),
through relationship (the pseudo-couple), and finally through
language (the insistent coupling of violence and meaning)? In
Dialogue with Godot offers a refreshingly new and varied approach
to Samuel Beckett s most popular play."
In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts, Ranjan Ghosh
puts together thirteen new essays on Beckett's most popular and
widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Chapters are envisaged as
dialogues with Godot, keeping in mind the event of waiting and
other issues related to this Godot-Waiting phenomenon. The merit of
this book lies in exploring this play from thirteen fresh
perspectives introducing some important themes that have not been
dealt previously. Contributors explore the play in reference to
topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva, Derrida,
the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in structural
reading, and anti-existentialism. Essays ask, can we make claims to
read this play outside the "absurd tradition?" Is it an
anti-existential play? Can Beckett possibly be "Indianized?" How
can the dialectic between "waiting" and "delay" be problematized?
If Beckett was up to de-structure conventional modes of
drama-writing, what connection could he possibly have with
Aristotle and his normative modes? Can the Vladimir-Estragon
relationship be critiqued psychoanalytically? Can questions of
political commitment be challenged anew, resisting easy
propositions to considering it a Resistance play? Can the Godot /
Resistance collocation be examined through torture (the series of
beatings that structures the play), through relationship (the
pseudo-couple), and finally through language (the insistent
coupling of violence and meaning)? In Dialogue with Godot offers a
refreshingly new and varied approach to Samuel Beckett's most
popular play.
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