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Zusatztext Beckett's enthusiasm for Flemish painting! engagement with Goethe! exposure to Nazi racial ideology and censorship...the development of his quietism and of his language scepticism! and his related reservations about hermeneutics! are scrupulously elucidated here! and tantalisingly illustrated from the diary itself... We look forward to Nixon further historicising Beckett. Informationen zum Autor Mark Nixon is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading! UK! where he is also the Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Zusammenfassung Sheds light on the development of crucial aspects of Beckett's post-war writing by drawing on exclusive access to his unpublished German diaries. This book explores the relevance of these diaries to Beckett's development as a writer. It challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments \ List of Abbreviations! Editions Cited and Notes on the Text \ List of Figures \ Introduction \ 1. Beckett's Journey to Germany 1936-1937 \ 2. The German Diaries \ 3. Psychoanalysis! Quietism and the Literary Waste \ 4. Beckett reading German Literature \ 5. Beckett! Nazi Culture and Contemporary German Fiction \ 6. Playing the Scales of Literature: Beckett's 'Notesnatching'\ 7. Beckett's 'Journal of a Melancholic' and Other Writing \ 8. Talking Pictures: Beckett and the Visual Arts \ 9. Clarifiers and Obscurantists \ Conclusion: The threshold of words \ Bibliography \ Appendix A: Beckett's travel itinerary \ Appendix B: Illustrations \ Index
