Samuel Beckett and the Borderlines of Modernism |
Michaela Chorváthová |
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The paper focus on contact points of different paradigms in the works of Samuel Beckett (1906--1989). Using the example of his early experimental prose (Murphy, 1938; Watt, 1944) the paper explores Beckett‘s problematic position in the context of the modernist project and the transition to postmodernism: the overlapping/fading of modernist optimism (the effort to erase the gap between the language and the objects it denominates) and the rise of postmodern scepticism (the fundamental inadequacy of the language). |
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Keywords: Modernism. Postmodernism. Novel. Literary Style. Language. |
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