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Samuel Beckett and the Meaning of Being; A Study in Ontological Parable

✍ Scribed by Lance St. john Butler


Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Leaves
222
Category
Library

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✦ 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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