Gustave Flaubert, Samuel Beckett and Marie NDiaye can be considered as visionaries of a peculiarly radical form of failure, their protagonists and texts alike s

This book explores how traumatic experiences of impingement and neglect – in childhood and adulthood, and at both the family and the state level – may creat

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particular

Inexhaustible Beckett: even as his oeuvre continues to mark today’s literary, dramatic and other arts, the man and artist remain alive in the memories of thos