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Beckett and Joyce, among others, had to leave their homeland to understand it — and to be understood.
Like the final scene of A Winter's Tale , or the last speech of The Tempest ? This standard for literary achievement would also discredit any work in the modernist tradition--for example Brecht's and Beckett's plays.
The just-published Cornel West Reader is dedicated to John Coltrane, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Tennessee Williams, Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Vaughn, Muriel Rukeyser, Thomas Hardy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Toni Morrison, "and above all," Anton Chekhov.
Other essays include: "Edible Ecriture," by British Marxist Terry Eagleton, which argues that Samuel Beckett's anorexic prose may betray "a race memory of the Irish famine"; and "Savouring the Antique," by classicist Emily Gower, which warns against romanticizing the Roman bacchanalia, since "most ordinary people experienced famine and lived at subsistence level."
That scene is like a mini Beckett farce with a cruel jet of gore for a punch line.