Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's post-war prose and drama in the light of
contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings the study
demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical
tradition it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of
traumatic repetition and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for
twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions
Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship
between language meaning and identity after 1945.
