BECKETT'S ART OF MISMAKING

Readers have long responded to Samuel Becketts novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatur es cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when m ost wounded. His works seem less to conclude than to stop dead. And so readers quite naturally ask: what might all this be meant to mean?In a lively and enlivening study of a singular creative nature, Leland de la Durantaye helps us better understand Becketts str angeness an...[Read more]