Beckett Matters: Essays on Beckett's Late Modernism

Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career.Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett's debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture ...