Samuel Beckett

A Study of His Novels

Eugene Webb

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Année: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780295805290
• Sujet: Literatura
• Sous-sujet: Crítica literaria

Collectively the works of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, reveal a remarkable continuity of theme. Together his writings present a particular view of life and each novel constitutes part of a larger whole.

INDEX

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A and B (French version of Molloy)

A and C (Molloy)

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Abel. See Christian imagery

Absurd, the: as a cultural concept

Absurdity: as theme in Watt

A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust)

Alexander of Hales

Ambrose, Father (Molloy)

Analogy, as principle in theology: Watt

Molloy

Anna Livia Plurabelle (Joyce): Beckett as translator of

Antepurgatory, Dante’s

Aquinas, Saint Thomas

Archetypal patterns: Watt

trilogy

Aristotle

Arsene (Watt)

‘Assez.’ See ‘Enough’

‘Assumption’

Astrology: in Murphy

Attachment, theme of. See Desire

Authors, Beckett’s characters as

Basil (The Unnamable)

Beatrice, Dante’s

Beckett, Samuel Barclay: biographical data

attitude toward philosophy

academic background

not a Cartesian

as the true narrator of the trilogy. See also Technique

Belacqua, Dante’s

‘Belacqua bliss’

Belacqua Shuah (More Pricks than Kicks): name derived from Dante

indolence

desire for isolation

sexual tastes

need for fellowship

physical impairments

need to keep moving

solipsism

pursued by Furies

attracted by insanity

desire to return to womb

feelings about death

unconcerned with politics

concern with justice of God

attitude toward Dante

self-deception

pose of self-sufficiency

implicit Cartesianism

narrator’s critical attitude toward

Bem (How It Is)

Bicycles: in More Pricks than Kicks

in Molloy

‘Bing.’ See ‘Ping’

Birth, as image; in Malone Dies

in The Unnamable

Bom (How It Is)

Bonaventura, Saint

Buddhism

‘Calmant, Le.’ See Stories

‘Calmative, The.’ See Stories

Calvet, Mother (Texts for nothing)

Cain. See Christian imagery

Camier (‘Mercier et Camier’): mentioned in trilogy

Carducci, Giosuè

Cartesian dualism: and for Beckett’s characters

Beckett’s attitude toward

implicit in thought of Belacqua Shuah

in Murphy

in Molloy, ‘The End,’ and How It Is. See also Descartes

Castle, The (Kafka)

Catholicism. See Irish Catholicism

Celia (Murphy): as parallel to Dante’s Beatrice

disaffection with life

Charcoal-burner (Molloy)

Christian imagery: purgatory

the Annunciation

Christmas

heaven

Cain and Abel

two thieves

Angelus

ecclesi...