After the End: Antoine Volodine and Samuel Beckett = Après la fin: Antoine Volodine et Samuel Beckett
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After the End: Antoine Volodine and Samuel Beckett = Après la fin: Antoine Volodine et Samuel Beckett
Yazar:
George, Bruno, author.
ISBN:
9780438051843
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1 electronic resource (204 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: William Flesch Committee members: Brian Evenson; David Sherman.
Özet:
What happens when a narrative begins after the end---after death, after the defeat of a revolution, or after the end of the world? How are readers implicated---ethically, politically, and affectively---in narratives that begin after the end? This dissertation argues narratives that begin after the end should not be understood as diagnoses of or warnings about the world's end (however badly those might be needed now). Instead the novels of contemporary French writer Antoine Volodine and 20th-century writer Samuel Beckett communicate moods and experiences: namely, a solitude entangled with otherness; an experience of political sympathy or "fellow traveling"; and a pessimism that goes beyond pessimism.
Chapter 1 shows how Volodine's novels of revolution's defeat provide readers an experience of political sympathy that is distinct from political suasion. This chapter also intervenes in the critical reception of Volodine's invented, sui generis literary movement, which he calls post-exoticism, and which has been seen as self-reflexive literary gamesmanship. By reading Volodine alongside French writer Maurice Blanchot, I show how Volodine's novels expose readers to a solitude that implicates them. Chapter 2 proposes the "corpsed world" of Samuel Beckett's play Endgame to be analogous to the many "vice-existers" in Beckett's novel The Unnamable, and then it argues we should ask not what a dead world means in Beckett but what such a world does. In tracing the curious liveliness of the unnamable's many dead companions, I show how a revisionist trend of Beckett criticism led by Bruno Clement has not accounted for the importance of quotation in Beckett's writing or the importance of imitation in literary criticism. Chapter 3 examines motifs in Volodine's post-exoticism not accounted for in Chapter 1's emphasis on sympathizing with fictional revolutionaries. This chapter responds to critiques of the post-human turn in the humanities, arguing that the form of tragedy still has resources for thinking about what remains after the end.
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School code: 0021
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