The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work
The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work
My article discusses Paul Auster’s debt to Samuel Beckett. I discuss an early play of Auster’s, called ‘Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven,’ and his novel The Music of Chance in relation to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I will be proposing that Beckett’s influence on Auster was quite pronounced in his early work, but as he has grown in confidence as a writer this influence is less apparent, and he has created a voice and a style very much his own, although Beckett can still be glimpsed, albeit fleetingly, beneath the surface.
9788323331179
325-338
Jagiellonian University Press
Campbell, Julie
8651d768-dd71-4b4e-8c19-98f32b53c1d5
2011
Campbell, Julie
8651d768-dd71-4b4e-8c19-98f32b53c1d5
Campbell, Julie
(2011)
The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work.
Bela, Teresa and Mazur, Zygmunt
(eds.)
In Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning: English and American Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century.
Jagiellonian University Press.
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My article discusses Paul Auster’s debt to Samuel Beckett. I discuss an early play of Auster’s, called ‘Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven,’ and his novel The Music of Chance in relation to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I will be proposing that Beckett’s influence on Auster was quite pronounced in his early work, but as he has grown in confidence as a writer this influence is less apparent, and he has created a voice and a style very much his own, although Beckett can still be glimpsed, albeit fleetingly, beneath the surface.
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Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning: English and American Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 2011-01-01
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/68719
ISBN: 9788323331179
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Julie Campbell
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Teresa Bela
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Zygmunt Mazur
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