Samuel Beckett and the Meaning of Being; A Study in Ontological Parable
β Scribed by Lance St. john Butler
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 222
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Butler argues that Beckett's most difficult texts become less opaque when they are seen as parables, literary equivalents of the philosophical theses of existentialism and Hegel
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