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Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love »

Authors: John Keller
ISBN-13: 9780719063121, ISBN-10: 0719063124
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: John Keller

John Keller is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto.

Book Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive, and highly original argument about the fundamental literary value and the underlying psychological meaning of Beckett's work.

	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
1	Preliminaries and Proust	9
2	No Endon sight: Murphy's misrecognition of love	49
3	This emptied heart: Watt's unwelcome home	90
4	A strange situation: self-entrapment in Waiting for Godot	133
5	The dispeopled kingdom: the hidden self in Beckett's short fiction	172
	Epilogue	217
	References	219
	Index	225