- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Being Contemporary, Then and Now -
Chapter One Coping with Contemporariness -
Chapter Two Rethinking Periodization for the ‘Now-Time’ -
Chapter Three (After) Conceptualism -
Chapter Four Identities in Flux -
Chapter Five The Paradoxes of Being Contemporary -
Chapter Six Of Sade, Blanchot, and the French Twentieth Century -
Chapter Seven Alain Badiou and Antisemitism -
Chapter Eight What Does ‘Vichy’ Mean Now? -
Chapter Nine Forces of Solidarity and Logics of Exclusion -
Chapter Ten Narrative, Testimony, Fiction -
Chapter Eleven ‘Moral Witnessing’? -
Chapter Twelve From ‘Never Forgetting’ to ‘Post-Remembering’ and ‘Co-witnessing’ -
Chapter Thirteen ‘I’ in the Plural -
Chapter Fourteen Selves at Risk -
Chapter Fifteen Risking Who One Is, at the Risk of Thinking -
Chapter Sixteen ‘La Connaissance par corps’ -
Chapter Seventeen Long Live Anachronism -
Chapter Eighteen Colette’s Côtelettes, or the Word Made Flesh -
Chapter Nineteen Choices: Beckett’s Way -
Chapter Twenty Making L’Etranger Contemporary -
Chapter Twenty-One A Nest in the Air -
Chapter Twenty-Two Adrien and Marcel Proust -
Chapter Twenty-Three Vulnerable Times* - Contributors
- Index
Choices: Beckett’s Way
Choices: Beckett’s Way
- Chapter:
- (p.319) Chapter Nineteen Choices: Beckett’s Way
- Source:
- Being Contemporary
- Author(s):
Christie McDonald
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
Choices: Beckett’s Way, written by Christie McDonald, articulates reinvestment in Proust, and meditates on choice within constraint, and how life becomes art. The interweaving of art, text, music, and the act of rereading run throughout McDonald’s essay as it examines three works by Beckett that critique, invoke, or indirectly relate to Proust.
Keywords: French and Francophone Studies, Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, European Literature, French Literature, French Culture, Cultural Studies, European Studies
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Being Contemporary, Then and Now -
Chapter One Coping with Contemporariness -
Chapter Two Rethinking Periodization for the ‘Now-Time’ -
Chapter Three (After) Conceptualism -
Chapter Four Identities in Flux -
Chapter Five The Paradoxes of Being Contemporary -
Chapter Six Of Sade, Blanchot, and the French Twentieth Century -
Chapter Seven Alain Badiou and Antisemitism -
Chapter Eight What Does ‘Vichy’ Mean Now? -
Chapter Nine Forces of Solidarity and Logics of Exclusion -
Chapter Ten Narrative, Testimony, Fiction -
Chapter Eleven ‘Moral Witnessing’? -
Chapter Twelve From ‘Never Forgetting’ to ‘Post-Remembering’ and ‘Co-witnessing’ -
Chapter Thirteen ‘I’ in the Plural -
Chapter Fourteen Selves at Risk -
Chapter Fifteen Risking Who One Is, at the Risk of Thinking -
Chapter Sixteen ‘La Connaissance par corps’ -
Chapter Seventeen Long Live Anachronism -
Chapter Eighteen Colette’s Côtelettes, or the Word Made Flesh -
Chapter Nineteen Choices: Beckett’s Way -
Chapter Twenty Making L’Etranger Contemporary -
Chapter Twenty-One A Nest in the Air -
Chapter Twenty-Two Adrien and Marcel Proust -
Chapter Twenty-Three Vulnerable Times* - Contributors
- Index
