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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231211611ISBN-10:231211619UPC:9780231211611Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, ModernBook Topic:French, 20th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCR8J6AHS9
Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times
Samuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that seem at once to confront finitude and the infinite, up to the limits of existence....
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231211611ISBN-10:231211619UPC:9780231211611Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, ModernBook Topic:French, 20th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCR8J6AHS9
Gabriele Schwab is distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, where she holds appointments in comparative literature, anthropology, English, and European languages and studies. She is the author of several books, most recently Radioactive Ghosts (2020). Her previous Columbia University Press books are Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity (2012) and...
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