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Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinkers

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This essay reappropriates a question Deleuze asked of Kant, in order to ask it again of Beckett: ‘The Northern Prince says “time is out of joint”.1 Can it be that the Northern philosopher says the same thing: that he should be Hamletian because he is Oedipal?’ (Deleuze, 1994, p. 88); by the same token, can it be that Beckett’s writing is Deleuzian because it is mock-Oedipal?

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  1. Ruben Borg
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  1. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    S. E. Wilmer

  2. Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, USA

    Audronė Žukauskaitė

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Borg, R. (2015). Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinkers. In: Wilmer, S.E., Žukauskaitė, A. (eds) Deleuze and Beckett. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481146_11

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