Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

by Arthur Rose

Book Overview

Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority.
Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350090018
• ISBN13: 9781350090019
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"