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The Postmodern Search for (Non)Identity: W. Golding's Masks and S. Beckett's Self-Annihilation

Aba-Carina Pârlog

Pages 25–28

Abstract

The article explores the concept of identity in major works by William Golding and Samuel Beckett. The emphasis is placed on the representation of facets of identity, their meanings and their links with philosophical trends. The article encourages the reading of the profile of the characters under focus through various masks and looks at changes in identity that reflect the intricate relationship between the self and the macrocosm. The conclusion emphasizes the modern alarm of the topic and its unsettling consequences treated with equal concern by both writers, despite the differences in style and approach between them.

Keywords —

identity · mask · decomposition of the self · identity crisis

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Pârlog, A.-C. (2001). The Postmodern Search for (Non)Identity: W. Golding's Masks and S. Beckett's Self-Annihilation. Dialogos, 03, 25–28.

Pârlog, Aba-Carina. “The Postmodern Search for (Non)Identity: W. Golding's Masks and S. Beckett's Self-Annihilation.” Dialogos, vol. 03, 2001, pp. 25–28.

Pârlog, Aba-Carina. 2001. “The Postmodern Search for (Non)Identity: W. Golding's Masks and S. Beckett's Self-Annihilation.” Dialogos 03: 25–28.

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