Book DescriptionAs a young man, Samuel Beckett (1906-89) hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world Instead, he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games Daniel Albright argues that Beckett sought escape through allegories of artistic frustration and одэбм the art of non-representation and estrangement Albright depicts Beckett experimenting with the concept that an artistic medium might be made to speak Engaging with radio, film, television, prose and drama, Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.  В третий2003 г 188 стр ISBN 0521829089.