ベケットとレオパルディ Beckett and Leopardi (Elements in Beckett Studies)

Boxall, Peter/ Nicholls, Peter

Cambridge University Press（2025/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 75 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009547918

Full Description

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence. In doing so, the Element looks past the impasse - between going on and not going on - that threatens to forestall imaginative possibilities for both writers.

Contents

Introduction: affinities; Part I. Leopardi / Beckett: 1. Leopardi's sceptical poetics; 2. The beating heart: 'to himself'; 3. Voices of the dead: Leopardi's 'chorus'; Part II. Beckett / Leopardi: 4. That narrow region: first love; 5. A spectacle of nothingness: Beckett's trilogy; 6. The world is mud: how it is; Conclusion: 'another heavenly day'; Works cited.