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Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human

By Beckett , Jean-Michel , Samuel;Rabaté

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN
9780823270859, 9780823270866, 9780823270873, 9780823270903, 0823270904
Language
english
Format
AZW3
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490 kB (501880 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

How to explain Beckett's decision to write in French? This work tackles a program in which form resists and leads to a writing of the generic, while a paradoxical ethics of failure, impotence, and humility displaces avant-garde art and modernism. Bataille, Adorno and Badiou here account for Beckett's enduring appeal. Beckett never flattered his public and yet gives reasons to keep on living even facing nihilism and despair. His inscription in a French context marked by a 'writing degree zero' is not a pretext to minimize his genius - on the contrary, Beckett shines because he went further than his contemporaries in an anti-humanist program playing on the theme of the animal in order to subvert the 'human'.

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