Reaching out to the World in Samuel Beckett's Late Short Stories
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Although the short story lacks the novel’s capacity to construct a broad picture of society and does not offer the possibility of interconnecting different perspectives to act as a chronicle or to draw a wide canvas of the social arena, it remains an apt form for evoking the unsaid and, in doing so, encapsulating the spirit of an age in a few words. By examining Samuel Beckett’s late prose pieces, this article aims to assess the potential of the experimental short story as a marker of contemporary times. In this analysis, Beckett is revealed as an unconventional writer who could, nevertheless, capture the mindset of an anxious age. Additionally, Beckett’s contribution to the genre of short fiction will be explored.
Source: The Journal of English Studies
DOI: 10.18172/jes.6471
Author: José Francisco Fernández Sánchez
Institution: University of Almería
Language: English
Topic: Samuel Beckett and Modernism
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Award: G8933116935
OpenAlex ID: W4408300953