Download or read book Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity written by S. Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.