Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to a...

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Main Author: Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2016
Series:Studi e saggi 157
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