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This a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett. This study is an important contribution to critical literature, and offers fresh perspectives on the crucial importance of the Recherche and Beckett's trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable in the context of the twentieth-century novel.

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"Proust, Beckett and Narration is a welcome addition to the literature on novelistic self-consciousness." - Derek Schilling, Rutgers University

Table of Contents
List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Remembering forgetting: Le drame du coucher; 2. Impressions, the instant of artistic consciousness, and history; 3. Lying, irony, and power: Proust's deceptive allegories; 4. Proust's forgetful ironies; 5. Molloy's way: the parody of allegory; 6. Moran's way: the forgetful spiral of irony; 7. Malone Dies and the impossibility of not saying I; 8. The Unnamable: the death of the ironical self and the return of history; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Proust Beckett and Narration

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 3/25/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521141857
      978-0521141857
      ISBN-10 0521141850
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      Literary studies: fiction Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett. This study is an important contribution to critical literature, and offers fresh perspectives on the crucial importance of the Recherche and Beckett's trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable in the context of the twentieth-century novel.

      Trade Review
      "Proust, Beckett and Narration is a welcome addition to the literature on novelistic self-consciousness." - Derek Schilling, Rutgers University

      Table of Contents
      List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Remembering forgetting: Le drame du coucher; 2. Impressions, the instant of artistic consciousness, and history; 3. Lying, irony, and power: Proust's deceptive allegories; 4. Proust's forgetful ironies; 5. Molloy's way: the parody of allegory; 6. Moran's way: the forgetful spiral of irony; 7. Malone Dies and the impossibility of not saying I; 8. The Unnamable: the death of the ironical self and the return of history; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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