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Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians

By Hugh Kenner , Guy Davenport

Book information

Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
2005
ISBN
1564783804, 9781564783806
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1881521 bytes)
Series
Lannan Selection
Edition
1st Dalkey Archive Ed
Pages
107\0
Time added
2013-12-03 18:08:21

Description

AN ENLIGHTENING STUDY OF THREE LEGENDARY WRITERS Have literary institutions such as introductions, prefaces and footnotes killed the book? The "book as book" has been removed from the oral tradition by such features as prefaces, footnotes, and indexes. Books have become voiceless in some sense - they are to be read silently, not recited aloud. How this mechanical change has affected the possibilities of fiction is Kenner's subject. Each of the three featured authors approached this situation in a unique, yet connected way: Flaubert as the "Comedian of the Enlightenment", categorising man's intellectual follies. Joyce as the "Comedian of the Inventory", with his meticulously constructed lists. Beckett as the "Comedian of the Impasse", eliminating facts and writing novels about a man alone, writing.

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