Samuel Beckett’s Proustian moment
The great Irish writer’s first book, an idiosyncratic study of Proust, was also a potent work of modernist literature
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Colin MacCabe
Colin MacCabe is a literary theorist and critics, who’s books include James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
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Salman Rushdie versus the mullocracy
Colin MacCabe reviews “Joseph Anton: a Memoir”.
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