Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: Beckett in America: 'somehow not the right country'.- Chapter 1: The Evergreen Review: Beckett and the American 'underground'.- Chapter 2: Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme and Metafictional Style After Beckett: Problems and Pratfalls.- Chapter 3: Opposing Tendencies in the Exhaustive Fiction of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon: 'Between zero and one'.- Chapter 4: Don DeLillo's Reinvention of 'Beckett World'.- Chapter 5: Paul Auster, Lydia Davis and Beckett's Post-millennial Legacies.- Conclusion: a 'postmodern icon'?