Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.

Autorentext
Peter Fifield is a junior research fellow at St John s College, University of Oxford.

Inhalt
Introduction PART I 1. Writing against Art 2. A Reluctant Poetics PART II 3. "why after all not say without further ado what can later be unsaid" (Company) 4. "begin again all over more or less in the same place or in another" (How It Is) 5. The Turn to Hyperbole Conclusion