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Beckett and Leopardi
Series: Elements in Beckett Studies
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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...
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This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests 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.
This Element develops the affinities between Beckett and Leopardi, to rethink the combination of scepticism and aesthetic possibility.
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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, Beckett and Leopardi looks past the impasse β between going on and not going on β that threatens to forestall imaginative possibilities for both writers.
Series: Elements in Beckett Studies
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781009431002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 December 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 133g
Pages: 75
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