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As it has developed from Murphy , Beckett's fiction shows a steady decline from character to an almost wholly sub - human mode of existence , ruined creatures with no more life in them than Robbe - Grillet's centipede crushed on the ...
As it has developed from Murphy , Beckett's fiction shows a steady decline from character to an almost wholly sub - human mode of existence , ruined creatures with no more life in them than Robbe - Grillet's centipede crushed on the ...
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It is salutary to bear in mind that the novel did not come into existence in a social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been implicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and even technological factors ; I have no ...
It is salutary to bear in mind that the novel did not come into existence in a social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been implicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and even technological factors ; I have no ...
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... mood in modern literature , and observes : ' I think a good deal of Herzog can be explained simply by the implicit assumption that existence , quite apart from any of our judgments , has value , that existence is worthful .
... mood in modern literature , and observes : ' I think a good deal of Herzog can be explained simply by the implicit assumption that existence , quite apart from any of our judgments , has value , that existence is worthful .
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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