Beyond the suffering of being : desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett /

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to a...

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Main Author: Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2016.
Series:Studi di italianistica moderna e contemporanea nel mondo anglofono.
Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy) ; 157.
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