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Book SynopsisThe first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Dantes in limbo
Detecting Dante in Joyce
Recycling Dante in Proust
2. Belacqua does not follow ‘the rule of the road’
There is no real Belacqua in Dream
Dante and Mr Beckett
Sordello is in the shade
3. Strata and mysteries: Intratextuality in 'More Pricks Than Kicks'
Quick deaths
Screechy flatfooted Tuscany peacocks
4. Fatigue and disgust: Murphy and Watt
Dante is kept out of sight: Murphy and the manuscripts
Addenda and excorporations
5. Who is the third beside you? Authority in Mercier and Camier
Vague shadowy shapes
No quotes at any price
6. Déjà vu beyond reach: from the Novellas to the Three Novels
The calmative effects of one’s classics
Odds and ends
Bits and scraps flickering on and off
7. Staging the Inferno in 'How It Is'
A voice comes to one in the dark
‘E fango è il mondo’: the 'Inferno' performed
Geometries of passions
The witness and the scribe
8. ‘In the words of the poet’: 'The Lost Ones'
Ravening eyes
Closed places
The sun and others stars would still be shining
Conclusion: Farewell to the Old Lutist
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