This book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature. It offers a clear pathway into this remarkable bilingual novel, identifying Beckettâ?Ts use of previously unknown sources in the history of Western philosophy, from the ancient and modern periods, and challenging critical orthodoxies. Through careful archival scholarship and attention to the dynamics of self-translation, the book traces Beckettâ?Ts transformation of his narratorâ?Ts â?~ancient voiceâ?T, his intellectual heritage, into a mode of aesthetic representation that offers the means to think beyond intractable paradoxes of philosophy. This shift in the workâ?Ts relation to tradition marks a hiatus in literary modernism, a watershed moment whose deep and enduring significance may now be appreciated. | Samuel Beckett's How It Is by Anthony Cordingley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters