Character's stream of consciousness as a specific literature technique in novella The Expelled by S. Beckett

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of Samuel Beckett's creative activity. The uniqueness of stylistics and poetics of the avant-garde writer has been described. The article focuses both on the main features of Beckett's short prose and the innovative character of his works. The subject of our investigation is novella «The Expelled» included in the book «First Love and Other Novellas», and the semantic-syntactic organization of the text in particular.

Keywords

• S. Beckett
• stream of consciousness
• semantic-syntactic organization of the text
• theatre of the Absurd