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Swann's way
The greatest French literary masterpiece of all time is now available as a graphic novel. Proust's oceanic novel 'In Search of Lost Time' looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging, literary experiences
Les plaisirs et les jours
Copia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 201
Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape: Remembering Kant, Forgetting Proust
This article draws on Samuel Beckett’s recently published letters
and archival scholarship to consider the place of Immanuel Kant’s
critical epistemology within Beckett’s early thinking and his subsequent
works. Beginning from Beckett’s engagement with Kant’s Critique
of Pure Reason, demonstrated by notes taken from Wilhelm
Windelband’s A History of Philosophy between 1932 and 1933, excerpts
from Jules de Gaultier’s From Kant to Nietzsche in the
“Whoroscope” Notebook, and Beckett’s acquisition of Immanuel
Kants Werke in 1938, I offer a close analysis of the philosophical underpinnings
of Beckett’s parody of Proust’s À la recherche du temps
perdu in Krapp’s Last Tape. The larger purpose of this article is to
argue that a critique of metaphysical thought can be found in Beckett’s
work and to demonstrate that Kant’s influence as a philosophical
source of this critique has been largely overlooked in Beckett criticism
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