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Article: Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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RABINOVITZ, RUBIN. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1992). 218 pp. $34.95.
This is a collection of previously published essays that examine some of the formal and stylistic innovations of Beckett's novels and shorter prose pieces. Dr. Rabinovitz's overarching concern is that readers learn to move beyond first impressions of chaos and meaninglessness to discover Beckett's "compressed, precisely configured layers of meaning" (p. 7). To do this we need to recognize the first principle, or "core," that "a literary style must reflect the essence of its subject" (p. 4). Assuming, for example, that Beckett's novels "center on the action within a single ...