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200 1. $a Beckett's creatures $b Texte imprimé $e art of failure after the Holocaust $f Joseph Anderton
210 .. $a London $a New York $c Bloomsbury Methuen Drama $d 2016.
215 .. $a 1 vol. (X-252 p.) $d 23 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. [233]-245. Index
327 1. $a Introduction. What is a Beckettian creature ? Last human and becoming-animal. Concepts
of the creature and creaturely life. Beckett after 1945. Testimony : bearing witness
to the event and self. "Impossibility of expressing" : art of failure and lacuna of
testimony. Fallibility and dissociation. (In)sovereign author-narrators. Obligation
to testify : mechanics, enunciation, ruins. Testimony of fiction. Power : master-servant
relationships. Exercising writing in "Watt" the fungible and Knott there. "A vague
supplication' : melancholy in "Waiting for Godot". Master-Servant context : the Holocaust
and the Jewish creature. Biopolitical struggles : territory and custody. Humour :
failure and degradation. Humour in failure. Textual performances. Words and flesh
in "Endgame". Metanarrative tragicomedy. "Turd waiting for the flush" : Gallows humour.
Survival : incompleteness and continuation. "Oh all to end" : Beckettian stirrings
still. Creaturely "Undeadness". Repetition and performance. Forms of activity and
stasis in "Molloy". "Finish dying" : death without death in "Molloy". Epilogue.
330 .. $a "In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through
his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'.
But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world ? In
the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and
drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's
ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks
the divide between human and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and
drama, particularly texts from the middle period, including Molloy, Malone Dies, The
Unnamable, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Anderton explicates four arenas of creaturely
life in Beckett. Each chapter attends to a particular theme, testimony, power, humour
and survival to analyse a range of pressures and impositions that precipitate the
creaturely state of suspension. Drawing on the writings of Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin,
Deleuze and Derrida to explore the overlaps between artistic and political structures
of creation, the creature emerges as an in-between figure that bespeaks the provisional
nature of the human. The result is a provocative examination of the indirect relationship
between art and history through Beckett's treatment of testimony, power, humour and
survival, which each attest to the destabilisation of meaning after Auschwitz"
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