Beckett's Dying Words The Clarendon Lectures 1990 |
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| Author:
| Ricks, Christopher |
| Series title: | Clarendon Lectures in English |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-282407-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1995 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $80.86AUD $98.95 |
Book Description:
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Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth: the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. This book explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of a great writer - the realizations of an Irishman who...
More DescriptionMost people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth: the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. This book explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of a great writer - the realizations of an Irishman who wrote in English and in French, two languages with different apprehensions of life and of death.