Waiting for Godot

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The beyond is where Backett’s later fictionsand play reside. Call it the silence or the abyss, or the reality beyond the pleasure principle, or the metaphysical or spiritual reality of our existence at last exposed, beyond further illusion. Beckett cannot or will not name it, but he has worked through to the art of representing it more persuasively than anyone else. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo’s White Noise. Table Of Contents Introduction Bailing out the silence The Search for the self Waiting Waiting for Godot The Waiting Since The Language of Myth Beckett and the Problem of Modern Culture Beckett’s Modernity and Medieval Affinities Chronology