Alain Badiou: On Beckett (2003)
12 November 2010, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · literary criticism, ontology, philosophy, theatre
“This collection of Alain Badiou’s essays on Samuel Beckett is a deliberate intellectual challenge to conventional Beckett scholarship. These essays trace the development of Beckett’s artfrom his first works through the claustrophobic world of The Unnameable to a final engagement with questions of Other and Love. Badiou rejects the stereotypical view of Beckett as the dark existentialist; rather, he claims that the lesson of Beckett is one of moderation, precision, and courage.”
Translation, introduction and selection by Nina Power and Alberto Toscano
Publisher Clinamen Press, Manchester, 2003
ISBN 1903083265, 9781903083260
164 pages
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