EAN: 9783838213699

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In the 1930s a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an 'abject self-referring quietism'. Andy Wimbush argues that 'quietism'-a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness-is a key to understanding Beckett's artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett's published and archival material Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer E.M. Cioran Thomas à Kempis Fyodor Dostoevsky and André Gide before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism argues Andy Wimbush was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art relationships ethics and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence ignorance and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had in Molloy's words the 'tranquility of decomposition'.

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