Beckett and the voice of species: a study of the prose fiction / Eric P. Levy
1980, 1st Edition. Dublin Totowa, N.J. : Gill and Macmillan ; Barnes & Noble. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #331757
ISBN: 0389200042
Physical description: 145 pages; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143) and index. Contents: 1.Introductory: the pure narrator and the experience of nothing -- 2.More pricks than kicks and Murphy: birth of the Beckettian narrator -- 3.Watt: narration and the problem of subjectivity -- 4.Mercier and Camier: narration, Dante and the couple -- 5.Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: Beckettian man and the voice of the species -- 6.Texts for nothing: farewell to being -- 7.How It Is: an allegory of time and personal identity -- 8.Looking for The Lost Ones -- 9.The Beckettian narrator in Six Stories and Nouvelles. -- 10.Fizzles. Subjects: Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 Fictional works. Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 Criticism and interpretation. Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989. Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 Criticism and interpretation; Juvenile literature. Beckett, Samuel Fictional works. Genre: Bibliography.
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