Beckett Matters
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels.
S. E Gontarski Livres
S.E. Gontarski est un érudit distingué dont le travail se concentre sur l'analyse de la littérature moderne et contemporaine, en mettant l'accent sur ses styles et ses thèmes. Ses généreuses bourses de recherche et son travail éditorial auprès de revues littéraires de premier plan témoignent de son profond engagement dans le monde littéraire. L'approche de Gontarski envers la littérature se caractérise par un examen textuel méticuleux et une profonde prise en compte de contextes culturels et philosophiques plus larges. Son expertise éclaire les complexités de la production et de la réception littéraires, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu plus approfondi des œuvres qui ont façonné le paysage littéraire moderne.
"Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to "find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography," his battles with the Lord Chamberlain in the mid-1950s over London stagings of his first two plays, and his close professional and personal associations with publishers who celebrated the work of the demimonde. Much of that term encompasses an opening to the fullness of human experience denied in previous centuries, and much of that has been sexual or decadent. As Gontarski shows, the aesthetics that emerges from such early career encounters and associations continues to inform Beckett's work and develops into experimental modes that upend literary models and middle class values, an aesthetics that, furthermore, has inspired any number of visual artists to re-vision Beckett"..