Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

by Laura Salisbury

Book Overview

Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representation
Samuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable seriousness of the post-Holocaust situation. How can these two statements sit together?
Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, and including readings of Murphy, the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the late prose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474401406
• ISBN13: 9781474401401
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"