Beyond the Suffering of Being : : Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett / / Roberta Cauchi-Santoro.

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to a...

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Place / Publishing House:Florence : : Firenze University Press,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:Italian
Series:Studi e saggi
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages).
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