LEADER 04932oam 2200589 c 450 001 9910973866903321 005 20260302090207.0 010 $a3-8382-7369-9 024 3 $a9783838273693 035 $a(CKB)4100000011297737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6326152 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6335827 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6326152 035 $a(OCoLC)1152227767 035 $a(ibidem)9783838273693 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011297737 100 $a20260302d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStill: Samuel Beckett?s Quietism /$fAndy Wimbush, Paul Stewart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (291 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aSamuel Beckett in Company$v7 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and index. 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Published works by Samuel Beckett -- Unpublished works by Samuel Beckett -- Other works -- Reference books -- Beckett's correspondents -- Introduction La vie tre?s quie?tiste -- Chapter 1 Dereliction into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 $aIn the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ?abject self-referring quietism?. Andy Wimbush argues that ?quietism??a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness?is a key to understanding Beckett?s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett?s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett?s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas ŕ Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy?s words, the ?tranquility of decomposition?. 410 0$aSamuel Beckett in Company 606 $aSamuel Beckett 606 $aQuietism 606 $aQuietismus 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophie 615 4$aSamuel Beckett 615 4$aQuietism 615 4$aQuietismus 615 4$aPhilosophy 615 4$aPhilosophie 676 $a848.91409 700 $aWimbush$b Andy$cDr.$4aut$01714543 702 $aStewart$b Paul$4edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973866903321 996 $aStill$94108466 997 $aUNINA