Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais

by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit

Book Overview

"How almost true they sometimes almost ring " Samuel Beckett's character rues his words. "How wanting in inanity " A person could almost understand them Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing does? Why discourage us from seeing, as Mark Rothko's paintings often can? Why immobilize and daze us, as Alain Resnais's films sometimes will? Why, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit ask, would three acknowledged masters of their media make work deliberately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048768
• ISBN13: 9780674048768
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"