The Drama in the Text: Beckett's Late Fiction

by Enoch Brater

Book Overview

The Drama in the Text argues that Beckett's late fiction, like his radio plays, demands to be read aloud, since much of the emotional meaning lodges in its tonality. In Beckett's haunting prose work the reader turns listener, collaborating with the sound of words to elucidate meaning from the silence of the universe. Enoch Brater ranges across all of Beckett's work, quoting from it liberally, and makes connections mainly with other writers, but also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195088921
• ISBN13: 9780195088922
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"