Title

Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime

Author(s)

Andrew Slade, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

Samuel Beckett's texts are populated with characters who have been so deprived of their humanity that humanity appears as essentially absent from his texts. The characters' presence in the diegesis is marked by unmistakable absences-absence of vision, of mobility, of sense, of name. Beckett's characters are often without: without hair, without teeth, without foreseeable future. The human character is at the limit of humanity and runs the risk of passing over into the grey zone of the inhuman. They lose track of their place, of their time, of their names. They frequently belong to no time and no place. When they are specifically situated, they are in and among ruins.

Inclusive pages

53-83

ISBN/ISSN

9780820478623

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

This title is No. 146 in the Peter Lang series Currents in Comparative Romance Language and Literatures. Chapter 3 is made available for download from the repository with permission of the publisher.

Permission documentation is on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2007, Peter Lang Publishing.

Publisher

Peter Lang

Volume

146

Place of Publication

New York, NY

eCommons Citation

Slade, Andrew, "Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime" (2007). English Faculty Publications. 34.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eng_fac_pub/34