Stories for nothing
Subtitle: Samuel Beckett's narrative poetics
By: Paul B. Kelley ; foreword by Sjef Houppermans.
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;; v. 111
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, 1906- -- Fictional works
Description: "Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics is the first book to examine Samuel Beckett's trilogy and post-trilogy works specifically in terms of their divergent approaches to narrative subjectivity. By comparing the narrational processes of Molloy, Malone meurt, and L'Innommable, Paul B. Kelley demonstrates that the negativity informing the trilogy has its underpinnings in Beckett's Proust.

Culminating in the narrative aporetics of L'Innommable this negativity is subsequently overcome in experimental fashion in post-trilogy works such as Textes pour rien, Comment c'est, and Compagnie. The result is a poetics of exhaustion whose pivotal significance for the Beckettian subject is explored."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-194) and index.