Literary Cynics
Borges, Beckett, Coetzee
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Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges’s parables of the 1950s, Beckett’s plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee’s pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to ‘late style’, the works reflect their writers’ abiding concern with particular conceptions of rhetoric and aesthetic form. Literary Cynics combines accounts of these ‘late’ works with classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee’s Disgrace to Beckett’s letters, as well as detailed analysis of cynicism, both ancient and modern, as a philosophical and political movement.
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Utgitt:
2017
Forlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN: 9781474258647
Format: 23 x 16 cm
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«An elaborate and admirably argued monograph ... Rose gives fascinating insight into the interrelations between each writer and his work by demonstrating how Borges, Beckett, and Coetzee exploit style [and form] ... An illuminating study.»
«Concentrated and cerebral, it is also deeply embroiled in a conversation with existing scholarship. It is without a doubt a vital addition to studies of Borges, Beckett and Coetzee, however; and of literary cynicism itself.»
«Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee is a study that will serve scholars of any of these respective authors looking for a thematic connection across continents. More meaningfully, it is revelatory in its theoretical discussion of revolution at its thresholds.»
«Rose writes in the same way he lectures, with great authority ... fluency, flair, and self-assurance.»
«Here is an urbane polemic, a quietly cynical response to critical practices that ground authorial authority.»
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Paradox One Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee
1 The Currency of Cosmopolitan Fame
Paradox Two Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth
2 Borges’s Parables
Paradox Three Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox
3 Beckett’s Impromptus
Paradox Four Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa
4 Coetzee’s Lessons
Paradox Five Creaturely Dog Men
Conclusion: On Mere Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index