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oapen-20.500.12657-553102022-06-01T03:24:46Z Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFP Translation & interpretation bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism 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, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings). 2022-05-31T10:26:03Z 2022-05-31T10:26:03Z 2016 book ONIX_20220531_9788864534060_594 2704-5919 9788864534060 9788864534053 9788864534077 9788892732315 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55310 eng Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9788864534060.pdf https://books.fupress.com/isbn/9788864534060 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6453-406-0 10.36253/978-88-6453-406-0 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788864534060 9788864534053 9788864534077 9788892732315 157 176 Florence open access
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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, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).
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