Titlebook: Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction; Problems in Postmode James Baxter Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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,A ‘Postmodern Icon’?, reading Beckett’s legacies in America in the twenty-first century. As a free-floating symbol of authorial commitment and regenerative failure, Beckett’s name has become a steady fixture of American consumer culture (Apple’s ‘Think Different’ campaign). At the same time, the Beckett catalogue remain

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,Don DeLillo’s Reinvention of ‘Beckett World’,bol of both termination and renewed possibility. This chapter will also consider DeLillo’s late style and the thematization of ‘landscapes of estrangement’ (., 2001) as a focal point for residual modernist influences.

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,A ‘Postmodern Icon’?,l chart a tentative course for Beckett’s posthuman legacies, focusing on DeLillo’s late novel . (2016) in which the American author channels Beckett’s post-. prose to imagine the abstract disembodiment of transhuman futures.

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Book 2021th readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provi

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,Beckett in America: ‘somehow not the right country…’,case for his reception in American fiction—from the unlikely alliance of Beckett and American publisher Barney Rosset to his influence over authors as various as Robert Coover, Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis—presenting new ways of responding to the tendencies of exhaustion and persistence at work in the Beckett text

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Problems and Pratfalls: Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme and Metafictional Style After Beckett,gative style of Beckett’s . is refashioned into the flamboyant ‘Last Quixote’—a figure who comes to bear on the 1969 collection .. Elsewhere, Barthelme demonstrates a particular interest in the ‘problem’ of Beckett, whose influence is reconfigured in ‘Not Knowing’ where ‘the more serious the artist the problems he takes into account.’

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,‘…between zero and one’: Opposing Tendencies in the Exhaustive Fiction of Samuel Beckett and Thomasns of . (1953) will be foregrounded as an oblique companion text to postmodern epics such as . (1973). It will be argued that the two authors coalesce in presenting entropy as a governing postmodern metaphor, with attempts to impose order on messy material self-consciously recycled into the body of the text.