Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett
ISBN-10
0748649700
ISBN-13
9780748649709
Series
Samuel Beckett
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2012-04-04
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Laura Salisbury

Description

Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the

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