Proust, Beckett, and Narration by James H. Reid - 9780521141857

Proust, Beckett, and Narration\n\nThis is a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett.\n\nJames H. Reid (Author)\n\n9780521141857, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 25 March 2010\n\n204 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg\n\n\""Proust, Beckett and Narration is a welcome addition to the literature on novelistic self-consciousness.\"" - Derek Schilling, Rutgers University\n\nThis a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of two of the twentieth century's most important writers of prose. Using a combination of theoretical analysis and close readings of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, James H. Reid compares the two novelists' use of first-person narration in constructing and demystifying fictions of consciousness. Reid focuses on the narrator's search to represent the voice that speaks the novel, a search, he argues, that s]