Samuel Beckett now : critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays. / Edited and with an introd. by Melvin J. Friedman.

With the exception of three essays, an earlier form of this book appeared in French as Configuration critique de Samuel Beckett.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes index

Introduction, by M. J. Friedman.--The elusive ego: Beckett's M's, by F. J. Hoffman.--Robbe-Grillet as a critic of Samuel Beckett, by B. Morrissette.--The strange world of Beckett's "grands articules," by G. Bree.--Black humor: the pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett, by E. Kern.--Beckettian paradox: who is telling the truth? By R. Federman.--Adventures of the first person, by R. Champigny.--Molloy or the quest for meaninglessness: a global interpretation, by D. Hayman.--Interpreting Molloy, by J. Fletcher.--A poet's initiation, by L. E. Harvey.--The laughter of sad Samuel Beckett, by R. Cohn.--Beckett's metaphysics of choiceless awareness, by R. Lamont.--Samuel Beckett: a checklist of criticism, by J. R. Bryer (p. 219-259)