Authors: Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-01 - Publisher: Firenze University Press
This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire,