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VOLATILE BODIES IN BECKETT AND DURRELL
VOLATILE BODIES IN BECKETT AND DURRELL

Author(s): Aba-Carina Pârlog
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: body as inscriptive surface; body without organs (BwO); cevolatile body; death; identity

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet from the perspective of volatile body representation. While in Beckett, we deal with a single volatile body, assuming distinct identities, in Durrell, we have a multiplicity of characters, each showing a series of facets brought to surface by different circumstances in their lives. The theories used in my analysis are Jacques Derrida, René Descartes, Alphonse Lingis, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 187-197
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English