Beckett, a Husserlian: A Review of Beckett and Phenomenology

The publication of Beckett and Phenomenology amounts to an event for the field of Beckett studies. This excellent collection of essays by leading Beckett scholars reopens the long-dormant question of Beckett's engagement with and relation to phenomenology. Theoretically rigorous in their examinations of the relevance of Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty to Beckett's oeuvre, these essays will be of great value to Beckett studies, to the study of modernism more generally, and to those scholars in any field who are interested in the state of literary and philosophical discourse both in Beckett's time and our own.