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Article: The Body Abject: Self and Text in Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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The Body Abject: Self and Text in Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. By DAVID HOUSTON JONES. Bern: LAng. 2000. 213 pp. 23 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-906765-07-5.
The publisher's jacket notes to The Body Abject, as imperfect as all texts of this genre, claims that this book is 'the first sustained study of identity in the fictions of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett'. The claim refers, of course, to studies relating both Genet and Beckett to this topic, as, individually, each of these writers has inspired book after book on this question. Yet David Houston Jones is right to claim that few works comparing these enormously challenging and influential writers, who were more or ...