Samuel Beckett and the Textual Dynamism of Failure

This article claims that Samuel Beckett's 'The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable' is paradoxically a successful art of failure, impotence and silence. Beckett's ambivalent writing is a literary style that bears the stamp of paradox: order and disorder, sense and mean...

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Author: Fayez Khasawneh, Hana
Format: article
Publication Date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:103784
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/103784
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Omnipotència
Dinamisme
Fracàs
Omnipotence
Dynamism
Failure
Artist
Omnipotencia
Dinamismo
Fracaso
Aporia
Artista
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Summary:This article claims that Samuel Beckett's 'The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable' is paradoxically a successful art of failure, impotence and silence. Beckett's ambivalent writing is a literary style that bears the stamp of paradox: order and disorder, sense and meaninglessness. Beckett does not choose between these antitheses but maintains them in constant motion as part of its dialectical structure. The essential factor is the interplay between two contradictory poles. The core nature of the Beckettian ambivalent writing is its interchangeability and intertextuality.