/lit/ - Literature

Why is it that Beckett is seldom a topic of discussion on this board?

Is his mastery too obvious?

Is he avoided due to the 'culture' his advocates fit into?

Existentialism - (I was assured by the instructor that much of the course will center on Kierkegaard, which is probably the only reason I'm taking it
Ancient Philosophy - (your standard PreSocratics-Plato-Aristotle intro)
Advanced Aesthetics - (which will cover Kant's 3rd Critique, as well as some writings from Benjamin, Adorno, Heidegger)
Honors Environmental Biology
Physics Lab

the science requirement was the only thing I never got out of the way via PSEO or AP :( otherwise I'd be taking a really kickass linguistics anthropology course about language and ideology

I love his dramatic works, I've only read, of his prose, Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable, and I loved them. There's something about the text that was at once entrancing and almost physically disorienting. It was a very sensuous (so to speak) experience, which I've never quite felt in that way with other literature, save perhaps some poetry where I get this really visceral wash of emotion.

I'm interested in reading more of his prose. Any advice where to go after the Trilogy?

Tim Hecker, Yellow Swans, sometimes Schönberg

>that feel when you will never have coffee and cigarettes and talk about literature/farts with James Joyce

Obligatory Beckett. There's so many good pics of him, hard to choose.

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

Samuel Beckett