‘to hesitate to die to death’: Reading Augustine and the After-life in Echo’s Bones

IF 0.3 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Paul Stewart
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Echo's Bones was Beckett's first attempt at delineating a post-mortem scenario and the allusive presence of St. Augustine's Confessions played a pivotal role in that endeavour. This article examines the various methodological difficulties of analysing Beckett's notetaking from Augustine and subsequent use in the story. It is argued that two key notions emerge from Beckett's allusions to Augustine in the text: a conception of death as dependent on relations with God (one is only fully alive within the grace of God) and the need for God's help to remain continent and to turn away from the demands of desire. As such, the article gives an early indication of Beckett's later concerns with ontological questions of death-in-life and life-in-death.
“对死亡的犹豫”:读奥古斯丁和《回声的骨头》中的来世
《回声的骨头》是贝克特第一次尝试描绘死后的场景,而圣奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》在这一努力中起到了关键作用。这篇文章探讨了分析贝克特从奥古斯丁那里记下的笔记以及随后在故事中使用的各种方法上的困难。有人认为,贝克特在文中对奥古斯丁的典故中出现了两个关键概念:死亡的概念依赖于与上帝的关系(一个人只有在上帝的恩典下才能完全活着),以及需要上帝的帮助才能保持大陆并远离欲望的要求。因此,这篇文章给出了贝克特后来对生中死亡和死中生命的本体论问题的关注的早期迹象。
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