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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.
Anecdotes are retailed in pieces and retold in interviews; the same citations crop up again and again; I lost count of how many times Barthelme attests to his debt to Beckett and explains that his writing not resembling Beckett's is a paradoxical measure of his thrall.
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.
"[L]ike Beckett written for soap opera," says Lyons; its "sometimes poetic, sometimes pseudo-poetic, and intermittently flat prose" seems a pale imitation of, alternately, Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare, says Simon.
Even Samuel Beckett would be yelling, "Get to the damn point!"