Bloom's Modern Critical Views - Samuel Beckett (2010) (175p) [Inua].pdf

Title: Samuel Beckett (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Editor: Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Library Binding: 166 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L); New edition (October 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1604138831
ISBN-13: 978-1604138832

Description:
The introduction expresses my own nostalgia for the lost exuberance of Murphy, while acknowledging that Beckett was the author who did most to revivify an almost dying sublime.
Martin Esslin provides an overview of Beckett’s world, identifying him as a heretical post-Cartesian, after which Alan S. Loxterman suggests that Beckett absorbed Joyce’s theological uncertainty while challenging his friend and mentor’s reinterpretation of narrative authority.
Hersh Zeifman then considers the ambiguous endings that haunt the late dramatic writings, followed by Giuseppina Restivo’s analysis of Leopardi’s influence on the master-servant opposition in Endgame.
Lois Gordon turns to the fragmentary nature and dreamlike language of Waiting for Godot. Declan Kiberd then casts Murphy as the embodiment of Beckett’s ongoing preoccupation with themes of failure and destitution.
Eric P. Levy then sketches the disintegration evident in Endgame, after which Enoch Brater listens for the essential silences in Beckett’s work. Matthew Davies concludes the volume with a discussion of the relationship between the audience and Beckett’s illusive stage creations. (from the Editor’s Note)