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Title: |
Still: Samuel Beckettâ s Quietism |
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| By (author): |
Andy Wimbush Series edited by: Paul Stewart |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838213696 : 9783838213699 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Weight: |
.380 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - June 2020 |
| List Price: |
36.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Philosophy of religion |
| In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an â abject self-referring quietismâ . Andy Wimbush argues that â quietismâ â a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessnessâ is a key to understanding Beckettâ s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckettâ s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckettâ s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloyâ s words, the â tranquility of decompositionâ . |
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