Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity

by Shane Weller

In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.

227 pages, Hardcover

First published May 5, 2006