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| Titre : | Narrative and Identity in Samuel Beckett's L'Innommable (1999) |
| Auteurs : | Brian DUFFY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 24 n 1 1999) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 63-77 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Beckettian criticism has tended to conceive of Beckett's novel trilogy in resolutely linear terms, and particularly where the condition of narrative discourse is concerned, with L'Innommable (The Unnamable) seen to represent the culmination of an increasing disenchantment with story-telling. This article argues that, while narrative conventions are indeed ruthlessly undermined in L'Innommable, Beckettian criticism has taken the narrating voice's own claims to have liberated itself from narrative at face value, thus failing to recognise the extent to which the narrating voice continues to invest itself in story-telling in its attempt to articulate an identity. The article focuses on the early sections of the novel, where the ostensible liberation from narrative is staged |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Brian Duffy |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
