Still Samuel Becketts Quietism - Andy Wimbush

In The 1930s, A Young Samuel Beckett Confessed To A Friend That He Had Been Living His Life According To An 'abject Self-referring Quietism'. Andy Wimbush Argues That 'quietism'-a Philosophical And Religious Attitude Of Renunciation And Will-lessness-is A Key To Understanding Becketts Artistic Vision And The Development Of His Career As A Fiction Writer From His Early Novels Dream Of Fair To Middling Women And Murphy To Late Short Prose Texts Such As Stirrings Still And Company. Using Becketts Published And Archival Material, Still: Samuel Becketts Quietism Shows How Beckett Distilled An Understanding Of Quietism From The Work Of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.m.