The Incurious Seeker: Waiting, and the Search for the Stranger in the Fiction of Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee
This article argues against Patrick Hayes’s assertion that the principal difference between Samuel Beckett’s and J.M. Coetzee’s writing lies in the former’s solipsism and the latter’s attempt to imagine the ‘good community.’ I demonstrate that the search for the lost self that is thematized in much...
Main Author: | Mike Marais |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Libraries
2015-01-01
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Series: | MediaTropes |
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Online Access: | http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/22380 |
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