num_pages: 152
description: Increasingly Samuel Beckett's writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century— succeeding the work of Proust, Joyce and Kafka, Beckett is a writer whose relevance to his time and use of poetic imagery can be compared to Shakespeare's in the late Renaissance. John Calder has examined the work of Beckett principally for what it has to say about our time in terms of philosophy, theology and ethics, and he points to aspects of his subject's thinking that others have ignored or preferred not to see. The author was for many years Samuel Beckett's publisher and friend. He shares his subject's view of the world and human destiny, which has helped him to follow through and trace the sources behind Beckett's early thinking, out of which he created a radical new literature.
language: English
title: The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett
titlecomplete: The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett
genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Calder Publications Ltd