{"product_id":"still-andy-wimbush-9783838213699","title":"Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eDream of Fair to Middling Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMurphy\u003c\/i\u003e to late short prose texts such as \u003ci\u003eStirrings Still\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCompany\u003c\/i\u003e. Using Beckett's published and archival material, \u003ci\u003eStill: Samuel Beckett's Quietism\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas   Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Andr  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'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Wimbush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3838213696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783838213699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ibidem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.70d","brand":"Andy Wimbush","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941642174719,"sku":"9783838213699","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_25b28712-cf55-41e2-b504-3ac0cdb6d981.jpg?v=1681454113","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/still-andy-wimbush-9783838213699","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}