Beckett and Proust

By Nicholas Zurbrugg

Book Overview

Not only does this book contain major analyses of Beckett's essay Proust, and of his first unpublished novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, but also discussions of his latest prose works, Company, Ill Seen, Ill Said andWestward Ho.
Contents: Proust and Critical Perspectives; Positive Modes of Existence in R A la recherche du temps perdu; Negative Modes of Existence inA la recherche du temps perdu; Nihilistic Modes of Existence inA la recherche du temps perdu; Beckett's Prousts The Singular and the Multipe; Beckett's Interpretation of the 'Albertine Tragedy'; Beckett and the 'Paradox' of the 'Mystical Experience'; Beckett and Critical Perspectives; Beckett, Proust, andDream of Fair to Middling Women; The Evolution of Beckett's Early Fictional Vision inMore Pricks Than Kicks and Murphy; Watt and the Problem of Intelligibility; Beckett's Mature Fiction From 'Shit' to 'Shades'; Conclusion: 'not life/necessarily' Beckett's 'Shades'; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index R

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0389207845
• ISBN13: 9780389207849
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"