Beckett's Art of Absence

CIARAN ROSS is Professor of Twentieth-Century English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France. He is Irish and was educated in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His publications include Aux frontières du vide and editor of Sub-versions: Trans-national Readings of Modern Irish Literature.

• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Setting up Shop in the Void. Beckett's Negative Sublime Family Matters Playing, Dying and the Art of Being Absent Incomprehensible Damnation The Void on Stage Restyling the Ineffable Void Conclusion: By Way of Neither Bibliography Index