Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath

Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett''s literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific politic...