Livro - Beckett and Aesthetics

Examines Samuel Beckett´s struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind through allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation, estrangement and general failure. He arrived, Albright shows, at some grasp of fact through the most indirect route available. Albright explores Beckett´s experimentation with the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak. This powerful and highly original book explores Beckett´s own engagement with radio, film, and television, prose and drama as part of an attempt to escape the confines of the aesthetic. Albright´s Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.

-Contents:

Illustrations;
Music examples;
Introduction: Beckett and surrealism;
1. Stage: resisting failure;
2. Tape recorder, radio, film, television: resisting the human image;
3. Music: losing the will to resist.