Text/Countertext
Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth
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Beschreibung
Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and Philip Roth's The Counterlife. Storytelling becomes here the dangerous activity of a guilty outsider who has come to expect hostile disapproval from all quarters. The result is a sadomasochistic confrontation between these postmodern writers and their imagined audiences: the pleasure of storytelling is linked to the pain the authors inflict upon their readers in retaliation for their anticipated disapproval. The structural consequence is «serial negation» - the constant agonistic oscillation between text and countertext, reflecting the authors' determined efforts to sidestep criticism and maintain artistic control.
Autor*in
Marie A. Danziger
Themen in »Text/Countertext«
BECKET Beckett Countertext criticism Danziger disapproval Doris Lessing outsider Paranoia Philip Postmodern Roth Samuel storytelling