Chaos & Form. Echoes of Beckett in Literature & the Arts

0476066 - FLÚ 2018 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Koblížek, Tomáš
Exeo in a spasm. A note on Beckett’s poetry.
Chaos & Form. Echoes of Beckett in Literature & the Arts. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, 2016 - (Koblížek, T.; Koťátko, P.), s. 248-260. Litteraria Pragensia books. ISBN 978-80-7308-713-5
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Keywords : Samuel Beckett * philosophy of literature * lyric poetry * subjectivity
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

The chapter provides a philosophical interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s book of poetry Collected Poems 1930–1978 (1984). It defends the following thesis: The Beckett’s book, and the world it represents, lack an overall subject or an overall voice which would pass from one poem to another and which would provide a common point of view for the whole of the book. The world as presented in Beckett’s volume is a world where permanence, continuity or wholeness have no place.
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