Imperative of Narration: Beckett, Bernard, Schopenhauer, Lacan

by Catharina Wulf

Book Overview

This is the first book to deal with the self-reflexive nature of narration of Beckett and Bernhard. Samuel Beckett's and Thomas Bernhard's works are representative of a persisting perplexity with regard to language. The texts of both authors are marked by their narrator's obsessive need to write, which is inextricably intertwined with their profound suspicion of language. The perpetuation of the narration is explained as an imperative, a simultaneously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845196732
• ISBN13: 9781845196738
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"