Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Orlandini, Lorenzo

Titel

<i>The relentless body</i>. L'impossibile elisione del corpo in Samuel Beckett e la <i>noluntas</i> schopenhaueriana

Ort / Verlag

Firenze University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• The overbearing affirmation of the body, with its instincts and impulses, and an effort aimed at suppressing that same push: this powerful dialectic deeply marks Becketts works, and becomes a crucial reflection of the more general tension between a vain waiting for the end and the need to move forward. The close investigation of the texts suggests a special link with the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer, revealing in particular the contiguity between the concept of <i>Noluntas</i> and the search, by many of Becketts characters, for "will-lessness", a peculiar state of quiet and abstraction from reality. Starting from these observations, this study investigates the theme of the body within Becketts poetics, especially in light of his relationship with the Schopenhauers Will theory