Innovation in Samuel Beckett's fiction
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Publication
1992 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1704096M
- ISBN-100252019415
- OCLC Control Number25411237
- OCLC Control Numberinnovationinsamu0000rabi
- Library of Congress Control Number92005273
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- Goodreads374462
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPR6003.E282 Z78875 1992
Description
Readers often find Beckett's fiction forbidding because he abandons conventional methods and introduces new formal devices. In Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction Rubin Rabinovitz, a pre-eminent Beckett scholar, provides comprehensive descriptions of those devices, explains how they are used, and clarifies how they contribute to Beckett's underlying ideas. As an example, Rabinovitz points out that more than 1,000 significant elements recur in Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. These emphasize elusive ideas, such as the mysterious affinities of thought linking the protagonists in these works or suggestions that different characters represent aspects of a single embryonic persona who is never explicitly described. Rabinovitz also discusses Beckett's use of narrative, chronology, setting, characterization, allusions, mythic parallels, and figurative language.
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