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Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

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When Samuel Beckett meditated on desire in works such as Proust,
Dream of Fair to Middling Women, and Molloy, he returned often to the
lines quoted above from Giacomo Leopardi’s poem “A se stesso.” Just before quoting this poem in Proust, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of
the sages who proposed the only (im)possible solution to living: the removal of desire

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: Firenze University Press., 2016

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Desire in Giacomo Leopardi
Samuel Beckett

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