Beckett's Creatures

In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to ''fail better''. But what might it mean to be a ''creature'' or ''creaturely'' in Beckett''s world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett''s prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic exi...