The Insider's View of Beckett's Re-Generating Art

Abstract

Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn places Beckett on the spectrum of post-Wildean decadent writers while also maintaining a vision of Beckett as a master of rediscovering and erasing himself through explorations of decay, absence, and loss. The book offers new material and analyses of key moments in Irish and European history, Irish postcolonialism, theatre censorship, boundary-changing publishing from the 1930s to 1960s, and performance activism. Gontarski creates an interconnected vision of the professional, theatrical, and philosophical strands of Beckett's work.