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- Title
Erschöpfte Literatur. Über das Neue bei Samuel Beckett.
- Authors
Schäfer, Armin
- Abstract
The article discusses the subjectivity embedded in literary works by playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett and relates that literary subjectivity to organismic and scientific subjectivity. Organismic subjectivity is said to decompose into fatigue when self-regulation breaks down and alters personality, leading to a state psychiatrists liken to mental illness. Such decomposition of personality does necessarily mean withdrawal from activity or movements, but rather simple inaction, a pathology of tiredness observed in Beckett's works, as noted by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
- Subjects
BECKETT, Samuel, 1906-1989; LITERATURE &; science; MENTAL fatigue; DELEUZE, Gilles, 1925-1995; SUBJECTIVITY in historiography; SUBJECTIVITY in literature; SUBJECTIVITY; TEXTUAL criticism
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 4, p329
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article