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Quotidian Beckett
Art of Everyday Life
Series: Elements in Beckett Studies
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Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption. Quotidian...
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See moreSamuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. His writing demonstrates an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption. This Element seeks to comprehend how Beckett's writing invites us to see the mundane in unfamiliar, unsettling, and politically charged ways.
The Element examines how Beckett's writing compels us to see the everyday in unfamiliar, unsettling, and politically charged ways.
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Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption.
Quotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life explores the writer's evolving response to this realm of experience, which philosophers and sociologists have paradoxically described as both everywhere and nowhere, obvious and enigmatic. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's influential theories of everyday life, the Element demonstrates how Beckett's writing, by producing forms that resist transparency and closure, invites us to see the mundane in unfamiliar, unsettling, and politically charged ways.
In this regard, his artistic achievement lies in rendering the elusiveness of the quotidian with a vividness that other modes of discourse seldom achieve.
Series: Elements in Beckett Studies
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Beckett and Leopardi
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...Paperback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Quotidian Beckett
Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption. Quotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life explores the writer's evolving response to this realm of...Paperback$8100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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ISBN: 9781009486132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 78g
Pages: 78
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