TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brater,Enoch
TI  - The drama in the text: Beckett's late fiction 
SN  - 9780195088922
U1  - 842.91 23
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Beckett, Samuel, 1906-  -- Fictional works
KW  - Oral interpretation
KW  - Fiction -- Technique
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fictional works
KW  - Technique
KW  - Beckett, samuel, 1906-1989
N2  - In this rich and perceptive study of some of the most haunting fiction written in the late twentieth century, Beckett critic Enoch Brater continues his investigation of the tension between text and script, silence and associational sound. Brater argues with great learning that Beckett's fiction, like his radio plays, demands to be read aloud, since much of the emotional meaning lodges in its tonality.Here the rhythm of Beckett's "labouring heart" finds its performative voice as the reader, now turned listener, collaborates in the creation of a musical composition that must elucidate the stillness of the universe.The Drama in the Text is a book about reciting and recounting, about how we know and what we know when we read a lyrical "text" crafted in prose but sounding like something else instead. Brater ranges across all of Beckett's work, quoting from it liberally, and makes connecti
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