Into the Breach

Arguing that Beckett''s understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud and such post-modernists as Bataille, Blanchot, and Derrida. Through extended comparisons of Beckett''s trilogy of novels with the writings of these thinkers, he emphasizes a "general economy" of signif...