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#6 in series: Lonely, DI Joe Rafferty signs up with a dating agency under a pseudonymn -- for very good reasons, or so he thought; but what he hasn't bargained on is that the first two women with whom he strikes up a rapport should wind up murdered - and with himself, or rather his alter ego Nigel Blythe, in the frame for the crime. The only good thing about the whole sad affair is that he is put in charge of the case. Can he find a way to investigate without the finger of suspicion being pointed at him?
The voice traverses Beckett’s work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice’s multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject’s vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett’s work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.
This book chronicles the history of a pioneering family of immigrant farmers (the Hopkirks) in southeastern Iowa. It begins in 1838 and ends with the early life of the author, their great-grandson, who was born in their house, moved with his family to California and what he experienced as an immigrant growing up in that state. It is a unique transect through history, complete with many original letters (1807+) and photographs (1850s+) which tell the story and bring it to life for the reader.
The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's prose and theatre.