Peter Boxall is a Reader in English at the University of Sussex. His books include Samuel Beckett: "Waiting for Godot", "Endgame" (Palgrave, 2000) Don Delillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2005) and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Century, 2006).

• Introduction: Since Beckett; PART 1: BACK ROADS: BECKETT, BANVILLE AND IRELAND; 1. Edgeworth, Bowen, Beckett, Banville: A Minor Tradition; 2. Spectrality and Eclipse: Beckett and Banville; 3. Unknown Entity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville; PART 2: TUNE ACCORDINGLY: BECKETT, BERNHARD AND SEBALD; 4. Faint Clarity: Tuning in Beckett; 5. All Balls: Beckett, Bernhard and Correction; 6. A Quite Singular Clarity: Beckett, Bernhard, Sebald; PART 3: HOW IT OUGHT TO BE: BECKETT, GLOBALIZATION AND UTOPIA; 7. From Joyce to Beckett: From National to Global; 8. Knowledge Within Bounds: Beckett, Globalization and the Limits of Perception; 9. Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Beckett in the Ruins of the Future; Bibliography; Index.

"Superbly contextualized, beautifully written, and wonderfully attentive to (and informative about) critical and theoretical backgrounds, this is a book for all who would better understand the literary era ushered in and still presided over - in spirit, at least - by Samuel Beckett. Resisting the notion that Beckett represents the final phase (or ossification) of modernism, the immensely learned Boxall effectively demonstrates the many ways that the aesthetic postures of exhaustion and persistence crafted by Beckett breathe through the works of some of our most important contemporary writers, notably Banville, DeLillo, Coetzee, and Sebald. Since Beckett is a profound meditation on the work of the master himself and a constantly engaging argument for his continuing importance to world letters." - Professor David Cowart, Department of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina, USA.