Obscure Locks, Simple Keys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obscure Locks, Simple Keys write by Chris Ackerley. This book was released on 2010-09-07. Obscure Locks, Simple Keys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Obscure Locks offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's most enigmatic novel, Watt. It provides a page by page account of the demented details (literary, philosophical, theological, biographical and other) that went into the making of this encyclop
Obscure Locks, Simple Keys
Obscure Locks, Simple Keys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obscure Locks, Simple Keys write by Chris Ackerley. This book was released on 2005. Obscure Locks, Simple Keys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Echo's Bones
Echo's Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Echo's Bones write by Samuel Beckett. This book was released on 2014-07-02. Echo's Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories—his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones", to serve as the final piece. However, he’d already killed off several of the characters—including the protagonist, Belacqua—throughout the book, and had to resurrect them from the dead. The story was politely rejected by his editor, as it was considered too imaginatively playful, too allusive, and too undisciplined—qualities now recognized as quintessentially Beckett. As a result, "Echo's Bones" (not to be confused with the poem and collection of poems of the same title) remained unpublished—until now, nearly eight decades later. This little-known text is introduced by the preeminent Beckett scholar, Dr. Mark Nixon, who situates the work in terms of its biographical context and textual references, examining how it is a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work. Beckett confessed that he included "all I knew" in the story. It harnesses an immense range of subjects: science, philosophy, religion, literature; combining fairy tales, gothic dreams, and classical myth. This posthumous publication marks the unexpected and highly exciting return of a literary legend.
Beckett’s Art of Mismaking
Beckett’s Art of Mismaking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beckett’s Art of Mismaking write by Leland de la Durantaye. This book was released on 2016-01-04. Beckett’s Art of Mismaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett’s novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. His works seem less to conclude than to stop dead. And so readers quite naturally ask: what might all this be meant to mean? In a lively and enlivening study of a singular creative nature, Leland de la Durantaye helps us better understand Beckett’s strangeness and the notorious difficulties it presents. He argues that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, nor even to reconnect with the child or the savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future. Whether called “creative willed mismaking,” “logoclasm,” or “word-storming in the name of beauty,” Beckett meant by these terms an art that attacks language and reason, unity and continuity, art and life, with wit and venom. Beckett’s Art of Mismaking explains Beckett’s views on language, the relation between work and world, and the interactions between stage and page, as well as the motives guiding his sixty-year-long career—his strange decision to adopt French as his literary language, swerve from the complex novels to the minimalist plays, determination to “fail better,” and principled refusal to follow any easy path to originality.
Beckett and Phenomenology
Beckett and Phenomenology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beckett and Phenomenology write by Ulrika Maude. This book was released on 2011-10-20. Beckett and Phenomenology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds, comparing and contrasting his writing with key figures including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It advances an analysis of hitherto unexplored phenomenological themes, such as nausea, immaturity and sleep, in Beckett's work. Through an exploration of specific thinkers and Beckett's own artistic method, it offers the first sustained and comprehensive account of Beckettian phenomenology.
