Beckett, Inexhaustible Desire

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Beckett, which is an intellectual challenge against the traditional perceptions and inferences about Samuel Beckett's literature, Inexhaustible Desire is a complete compilation of Alain Badiou's essays about Beckett.

Rejecting the stereotyped readings of Beckett, Badiou paves the way to destroy the image that clings to him as the "existential author of despair, absurdity and pessimism". As a method, he tries to reach Beckett's moderate, measured, sensitive but brave inferences by following the prosody of the "implicit poetry" in the lines and the themes of the texts. Based on these inferences, Badiou argues that Beckett's works are philosophy itself.

An alternative approach to the master writer of world literature from Badiou, who brings the fruits of his forty years of work to his readers...

Dough Type: 2nd Dough Number

of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 96

Original Name: Beckett, l'increvable désir