Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Softcover

Szafraniec, Asja

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804754578 ISBN 13: 9780804754576

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2007

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Book by Szafraniec Asja

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"Those who live by the word have unfinished business with the achievement of Samuel Beckett. Asja Szafraniec's ambitious study, taking Derrida's elaborations as measures in turn measured by Beckett's corpus, is as clear and comprehensive and illuminating a progress with the complex of these performers as one might ask for. Near initiates of this region of crisscross between what is called philosophy and what literature, as well as experienced warriors within it, should find cause to be grateful for Asja Szafraniec's sure hand and expansive connections." -Stanley Cavell, Harvard University "This is a remarkable and valuable work in many respects, in particular because it is not only the first, to my knowledge, to systematically explore the relation between Derrida and Beckett, but also because it puts Derrida's vision of literature to the test in the context of a corpus of writings that does not belong to the canon of literature with which he has been involved." -- Rodolphe Gasche "Szafraniec makes an important contribution to discussion on transactions and interconnections between Samuel Beckett and Jacques Derrida, two writers engaged in very different kinds of deconstructive operations That Beckett may have exposed the exhaustion of literature in order to evade the inevitable delusions that language engenders is an extraordinary thesis, which Szafraniec makes credible." -- CHOICE "I know of no author who brings to the page such a deep understanding of Derrida's philosophy along with such a delicate, piercing awareness of the singularity of Beckett's text and its place in the literary institution." -- Peter T. Connor

Reseña del editor:

Jacques Derrida's repeatedly stated admiration and professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett are the point of departure for this book's exploration of the relation between philosophy and literature.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0804754578
• ISBN 13: 9780804754576
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264