Samuel Beckett's How It Is

Name: Samuel Beckett's How It Is
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett?s How It Is\nThis book maps out the novel?s complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work?s great significance for twentieth-century literature. It offers a clear pathway into this remarkable bilingual novel, identifying Beckett?s use of previously unknown sources in the history of Western philosophy, from the ancient and modern periods, and challenging critical orthodoxies. Through careful archival scholarship and attention to the dynamics of self-translation, the book traces Beckett?s transformation of his narrator?s ?ancient voice?, his intellectual heritage, into a mode of aesthetic representation that offers the\n\nSamuel Beckett's How It Is\nPhilosophy in Translation\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: t;