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"Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide array of guises, can be seen to emerge. Since Beckett looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited. In reading Beckett against the contemporary in this way, Peter Boxall offers both a compelling re-reading of Beckett, and a powerful new analysis of contemporary culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Author

Peter Boxall

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441100672

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

2.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14