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Article: Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama and Early Fiction.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama and Early Fiction. By JAMES ACHESON. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1997. xii+254 pp. [pound]37.50.
James Acheson is an experienced Beckettian who offers here a second-generation study of the oeuvre. He assumes that the reader is familiar with the inhospitable terrain and makes a second pass across it, picking up unnoticed clues as to meaning, reworking Sam's nihilist soil. We are taken further into the famous Mess and learn something with each chapter.
Like several recent books on Beckett, this one takes a special interest in the early work; the 'Artistic Theory' of ...