(Ebook) Samuel Beckett: The Critical Heritage by Lawrence Graver, Raymond Federman ISBN 9780203197318, 9780415159548, 0415159547, 0203197313

(Ebook) Samuel Beckett: The Critical Heritage by Lawrence Graver, Raymond Federman ISBN 9780203197318, 9780415159548, 0415159547, 0203197313

Although the future can be left to come to its own terms with Beckett, the arguments started during his own lifetime are certain to continue. How should he best be read: as myth-maker, comedian, parablist. philosopher, God-hater, demystifier, stoic wit—if all of these, in what proportions? Early Beckett, or late, and where does one draw the line? What kind of man is that fanatic explorer who changed the shape of the novel and the theatre? How does he relate to the major cultural movements of his time? Where are his deepest roots: in Dante. Descartes, Dublin? Shakespeare, Paris. Swift. Joyce? his relationship with his mother, with his own unconscious? Questions that kept the past busy are likely to preoccupy the future.