
Wandering and Home
Beckett's Metaphysical Narrative
Eyal Amiran(Author)
Pennsylvania State University Press
Published on 9. March 1993
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-271-00860-8 (ISBN)
Description
How are we to think of Beckett's fiction? Lyrical, inventive, uncompromising, beautifully precise-an immense achievement-is it really an art that proclaims the disintegration of language and of the imagination, as traditional readings conclude? Eyal Amiran's study demonstrates that Beckett's work does not embody the failure of synthetic vision. Beckett's fiction transposes a large intertextual logic from the Western metaphysics it is said to disown, and so takes its place in a literary and philosophical tradition that extends from Plato to Joyce and Yeats. At the same time, it develops as a serial narrative, from the early novels to the late short fictions, to unravel the story itself that its metaphysical tradition tells.
Reviews / Votes
"This whole book runs counter to the way most (including this reader) have read Beckett. Among the many books on Beckett that have been published, it will stand out as an original and distinctive addition."-H. Porter Abbott, University of California, Santa Barbara "Until now, no one has worked out the complex unity of Beckett's whole fictional canon-and revealed its systematic inner logic-in the richly detailed and persuasive manner that Amiran here achieves."-Charles Rossman, University of TexasMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-271-00860-8 (9780271008608)
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Person
Eyal Amiran is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University and coeditor of Essays in Postmodern Culture (1993).