LEADER 03583nam 2200457 450 001 9910817614903321 005 20210123191800.0 010 $a3-8382-7369-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011297737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6326152 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6335827 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6326152 035 $a(OCoLC)1152227767 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011297737 100 $a20210123d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStill $eSamuel Beckett's quietism. /$fAndy Wimbush 210 1$aBerlin, Germany :$cIbidem Verlag,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (291 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aSamuel Beckett in Company 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished works by Samuel Beckett -- Other works -- Reference books -- Beckett's correspondents -- Introduction La vie tre?s quie?tiste -- Chapter 1 Dereliction into Literature: Quietism and Beckett's 1930s -- Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism -- Arthur Schopenhauer's Quietism -- Beckett and Schopenhauer -- A?skesis, Mysticism, and Belief -- Andre? Gide and Dostoevskian Quietism -- Christian Mysticism -- Quietism and Hellenistic Philosophy -- A Basis for Quietism -- Humanistic Quietism -- Abject Self-Referring Quietism -- Geulincx and Quietism? -- Quietism continues -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 A Sufferer of My Pains: Murphy and the Little World -- Tat tvam asi -- The Alyosha Mistake -- Luciferian Concentration -- The Need for Brotherhood -- Into the Big World -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Remnants of a Pensum: Decay and quietist aesthetics from Dream of Fair to Middling Women to Molloy -- Moran's Prayer -- Molloy and the Contemplative Life -- The Thing in Ruins -- The Fundamental Unheroic -- The Tranquillity of Decomposition -- Moran Checks the Rot -- Moran's Putrefaction -- Quietism, Violence, and Contradiction -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Sage Under the Bo: How It Is, Ernst Haeckel and Beckett's (German) Buddhism -- Beckett and Buddhism: A Biographical and Critical History -- The Western Religious Epic in How It Is -- Darwin and the Natural Order -- The Eastern Sage -- Victims and Tormentors -- The End of Suffering? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 so much short of blessed nothing: Salvation, rebirth and the late prose -- Beckett's novel 'series' -- Proustian Rebirth -- Rebirth in the Trilogy -- The Mystic Paradox -- True refuge: from Ping to Lessness -- Unhappily no: Company -- The One True End to Time and Grief: Stirrings Still -- Conclusion. 327 $aAfterword -- Bibliography -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished work by Samuel Beckett -- Secondary material on Beckett -- General works -- Index. 330 $aAndy Wimbush argues that quietism-a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness-is a key to understanding Samuel Beckett's artistic vision. Using Beckett's published and archival material, he shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism and turned it into a new aesthetic. 410 0$aSamuel Beckett in Company 606 $aQuietism 615 0$aQuietism. 676 $a848.91409 700 $aWimbush$b Andy$01714543 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817614903321 996 $aStill$94108466 997 $aUNINA