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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2013-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>8</volume>
    <issue>8</issue>
        <startPage>32</startPage>
    <endPage>42</endPage>
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    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy, Alain Badiou and the Subtraction from the State and the Community ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ María J. López ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ University of Córdoba, Spain ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ The subtraction from forms of community and resistance to figures of authority that we find in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy can be approached in the light of Alain Badiou’s critique of communitarian ethics and of the administrative and management function of the state, in which the individual is considered as a subset. It can also be seen as informed by the particular historical manifestations of political totalitarianism and authoritarianism that characterized the European context from which the Trilogy emerged. Drawing on Badiou’s own readings of Beckett and on Andrew Gibson’s revaluation of Badiou and Beckett, and as opposed to prevalent interpretations of the Trilogy that have underlined its despairing character and sole concern with the isolated ego, I would like to approach Molloy, Malone and the Unnamable as unconsenting and persistent individuals that refuse to become part of a community, reject established knowledges and resist to the conformity and obedience demanded by the state.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Beckett</keyword>
              <keyword>Trilogy</keyword>
              <keyword>Badiou</keyword>
              <keyword>Gibson</keyword>
              <keyword>Subtraction</keyword>
              <keyword>Resistance</keyword>
              <keyword>State</keyword>
              <keyword>Community</keyword>
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