Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism (2004), Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (2008), and Modernism and Nihilism (2011). He is also the co-author (with Dirk Van Hulle) of two volumes in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project series: The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'L'Innommable'/'The Unnamable' (2014) and The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Fin de partie'/'Endgame' (2018).
Introduction
1. The language crisis: from Mallarmé to Mauthner
2. Great destructive work: The interwar years
3. Performing the negative: Franz Kafka
4. Humanity in ruins: Samuel Beckett
5. Writing the disaster: Maurice Blanchot
6. Through the thousand darknesses: Paul Celan
7. Unconditional negativity: W. G. Sebald
8. Unwording, terminal and interminable
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
