In this illuminating study of the grotesque and black comedy, Mr. Pearce traces the classic clown tradition in the works of Beckett, Flannery O Connor, Kafka, Faulkner, William Burroughs, Nabokov, Gunter Grass, and other modern writers. The stages of the title refer to the historical development and concept of the clown from classical to modern literature. The author s radical perspective on the clown as the hero in a world of the absurd is especially important."
- ISBN10 080930449X
- ISBN13 9780809304493
- Publish Date 1 October 1970
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 July 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 166
- Language English