Beckett and Proust - Hardcover
Not only does this book contain major analyses of Beckett's essay Proust, and of his first unpublished novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, but also discussions of his latest prose works, Company, Ill Seen, Ill Said and Westward Ho. Contents: Proust and Critical Perspectives; Positive Modes of Existence in^R A la recherche du temps perdu; Negative Modes of Existence in A la recherche du temps perdu; Nihilistic Modes of Existence in A la recherche du temps perdu; Beckett's ProustsoThe Singular and the Multipe; Beckett's Interpretation of the 'Albertine Tragedy'; Beckett and the 'Paradox' of the 'Mystical Experience'; Beckett and Critical Perspectives; Beckett, Proust, and Dream of Fair to Middling Women; The Evolution of Beckett's Early Fictional Vision in More Pricks Than Kicks and Murphy; Watt and the Problem of Intelligibility; Beckett's Mature FictionoFrom 'Shit' to 'Shades'; Conclusion: 'not life/necessarily'oBeckett's 'Shades'; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index^R
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...illuminates anew many aspects of Proust's world. CHOICE ...an engaging, well-informed study of the dynmaics of literary inheritance across the Mondernist/Postmodernist divide. Comparative and General Literature ...an engaging, well-informed study of the dynmaics of literary inheritance across the Mondernist/Postmodernist divide. Comparative and General Literature ...illuminates anew many aspects of Proust's world. CHOICE
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- PublisherColin Smythe Ltd
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 086140047X
- ISBN 13 9780861400478
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Published simultaneously in Great Britain & the United States in 1988. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "Ever since the first appearance of PROUST in 1931, Samuel Beckett has responded extremely ambivalently, both praising and belittling his subject. Captivated by his occasionally contagious enthusiasm for it, Beckett's own critics have praised PROUST as the ideal guide to both its subject and its author, creating the myth that their concerns are somehow one and the same. Nicholas Zurbrugg's BECKETT AND PROUST---itself virtually a trilogy of critical studies---offers a timely antidote to this confusion. It is the first major comparison between the two authors, and Dr. Zurbrugg has had the advantage of being able to study Beckett's annotations in his copies of Proust's novel. He begins by reassessing the Proustian vision before considering Beckett's PROUST, when he examines the evolution of this essay with particular reference to Beckett's own annotated copies of the work. Finally, Dr. Zurbrugg reassesses Beckett's fictional vision, arguing that its peculiarly anti-Proustian character may be traced from Beckett's first, unpublished novel, DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN, to COMPANY and his most recent writings of the 'eighties. As Dr. Zurbrugg suggests, comparison of Proust's and Beckett's writings reveals their startlingly antithetical yet complimentary character, and helps redefine Beckett's vision as the very reverse of the search for self-knowledge that critics usually associate with his writings. BECKETT AND PROUST will be welcomed as a valuable guide to the transition between 'Proustian' Modernist tradition and the 'Beckettian' impulse within Post-Modern literature." Pristine copy, unread, unmarked, w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, no age toning on pages, very slight foxing on text block top/side; quite presentable & collectible. See my listings RUB1293 DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN & RUB1294 ELEUTHERIA, posthumously published by Beckett's estate. Seller Inventory # RUB1292
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