Richard Began (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This study explores the relation between Samuel Beckett's five major novels-- Murphy, Watt, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable-- and the phenomenon that Lyotard, Habermas, and Vattimo have described as the "end of modernity." Though close readings of Beckett's "pentalogy," the author shows how these novels, written between 1935 and 1950, strikingly anticipate many of the defining themes and ideas of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida-- from madness and the cogito to the "death of the author" and the "end of the book," from differance and unnamability to the "end of man" and the "beginning of writing." **The book has a tiny black (remainder?) dot at the bottom.**.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. HBDJ, NO DATE, VG+/GOOD-, AS-IS, But Early, DJ small chips Tears Scuff FOX But Front Illustration & Title INTACT, Spine DJ 2 large Chips ENDS, Blue Decorated Cloth FoX, Wear & Light Stains at Spine, Interior Nice tight Clean light Wear,FoX, 150 PGs + Lincolns Speeches, This book is in good condition with damage to dust jacket and Little wear to cover and pages due to age. The copyright date is uNknown. …