This study is about the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing. Stating that Beckett is 'primarily about love', it makes a re-assessment of his influence and immense popularity. The book examines numerous Beckettian texts, arguing that they embody a struggle to remain in contact with a primal sense of internal goodness, one founded on early experience with the mother. Writing itself becomes an internal dialogue, in which the reader is engaged, between a 'narrative-self' and a mother.
- ISBN10 1847790542
- ISBN13 9781847790545
- Publish Date 19 July 2013 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Imprint Manchester University Press Melland Schill Studies
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English