Moments for Nothing : : Samuel Beckett and the End Times /

Moments for Nothing : : Samuel Beckett and the End Times / / Gabriele Schwab.

Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetiti...

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Schwab, Gabriele,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 MOMENTS FOR NOTHING Endgame and Its Discontents
  • 2 THE TRANSITIONAL SPACE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH “The Calmative,” Molloy, and Malone Dies
  • 3 END TIMES OF SUBJECTIVITY The Unnamable
  • 4 “LAUGHING WILDLY INMIDST SEVEREST WOE” Happy Days and the Last Humans
  • 5 COSMOGRAPHICAL MEDITATIONS ON THE IN/HUMAN The Lost Ones
  • CODA Breath and the Vicissitudes of Animation
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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