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Samuel Beckett and the Borderlines of Modernism

Michaela Chorváthová


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).


Keywords: Modernism. Postmodernism. Novel. Literary Style. Language.


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