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"Culminates with the closest, most detailed and systematic reading of Becketts most important novel, Molloy , yet produced. . . . No other work in Beckett studies has attempted to deal with these works in this much detail, with this strong a thesis, and, most important, with this much success. . . . A masterwork. It will completely revise how we think of Becketts creative process and how we read Molloy ."--S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University While much has been written on the subject of Joyces uses of sources and models, little has been written about Samuel Becketts similar preference for using formal systems of thought as scaffolding for his own work. In the most comprehensive study of his use of source material, J. D. OHara examines specifically Becketts almost obsessive concern with psychological sources and themes and his use of Freudian and Jungian narrative structures. Beginning with Becketts early monograph, Proust , OHara traces Becketts preference for Schopenhauers philosophy as the system of thought most appropriate for thinking and writing about Proust. OHara then examines Becketts shift from philosophical to psychological models, specifically to Freudian and Jungi

Author

O'Hara, J. D. (James Donald)

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1997.

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813023144

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, Literary Criticism