Credo quia absurdum est The Subversion of the Rational in Samuel Beckett's Early Poetics

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Credo quia absurdum est The Subversion of the Rational in Samuel Beckett's Early Poetics

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University of Otago

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The "true saying," credo quia absurdum est (I believe because it is absurd), widely accepted as an affirmation of faith over reason, is itself an absurdity, arising from a misunderstanding of what Tertullian wrote. This essay considers how this maxim has informed the Modernist aesthetic, with particular emphasis on its presence in the earlier writings of Samuel Beckett, which responded initially to Joyce (the "epiphany") and Proust (the Proustian "moment") but ran up against an aesthetic impa...

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Book Section

Date created

2024

Creator

Ackerley, Chris

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/38935

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Epiphany / Tertullian / credo / Irrational / Sartre / Transcendent / Impasse / Surrealism / Joyce / Surd / Geoffrey Hill / Proust / Samuel Beckett / Verticalism / absurdum est

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