Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words (Cambridge Studies in French)

This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on contemporary literary theory, the book examines Beckett's fiction writing in terms of its struggle with the uncertainties of difference and identity. Beckett's bilingualism, his experiments with literary form and his treatment of sexuality and the body are seen as exploring the tendency of words to collapse into indifference and indeterminacy. The book also considers questions of modernism, translation, fiction, genealogy, names, experimentation and fragmentation, providing a major reassessment of the aims and methods of Beckett's novels and prose fiction.Leslie Hill is the author of 'Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words (Cambridge Studies in French)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521356459 and ISBN 0521356458.