Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas written by P. Fifield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.