: critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays
; Edited and with an introd. by Melvin J. Friedman
Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 1970.
xii, 275p
With the exception of three essays, an earlier form of this book appeared in French as Configuration critique de Samuel Beckett
Introduction, by M.J. Friedman.- The elusive ego: Beckett's M's, by F.J. Hoffman.- Robbe-Grillet as a critic of Samuel Beckett, by B. Morrissette.- The strange world of Beckett's "grands articules," by G. Bree.- Black humor: the pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett, by E. Kern.- Beckettian paradox: who is telling the truth? By R. Federman.- Adventures of the first person, by R. Champigny.- Molloy or the quest for meaninglessness: a global interpretation, by D. Hayman.- Interpreting Molloy, by J. Fletcher.- A poet's initiation, by L.E. Harvey.- The laughter of sad Samuel Beckett, by R. Cohn.- Beckett's metaphysics of choiceless awareness, by R. Lamont.- Samuel Beckett: a checklist of criticism, by J.R. Bryer (p. 219-259)
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906- - Criticism and interpretation