EAN: 9783838213699

STILL SAMUEL BECKETTS QUIETISM SAMUEL BECKETT...

In the 1930s  a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life
according to an 'abject self-referring quietism'. Andy Wimbush argues that 'quietism'-a
philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness-is a key to
understanding Beckett's artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer
from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such
as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett's published and archival material  Still: Samuel
Beckett's Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of
Arthur Schopenhauer  E.M. Cioran  Thomas à Kempis  Fyodor Dostoevsky  and André Gide  before
turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of
nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism  argues Andy
Wimbush  was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art 
relationships  ethics  and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way
to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence  ignorance  and incoherence
so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had  in Molloy's words  the 'tranquility of
decomposition'.

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