Vegetating Life and the Spirit of Modernism in Kafka and Beckett

Introduction

“…Needless to say, such a preference is well justified by the wealth of posthumanist angles offered by these canonical authors; and as shown by some of the chapters collected in this volume, the innovative critical potential yielded by a posthumanist reconsideration of Woolf's or Beckett's works is still far from being exhausted. On the other hand, one cannot but be struck by the comparative lack of critical attention towards modernists from outside the UK or the US, with the exception of a handful of articles on authors like Arthur Rimbaud (Finch-Race 2017) and Marcel L'Herbier (Borg 2020), Franz Kafka (Harel 2020, Anderton 2019, Jorge Luis Borges (Herbrechter and Callus 2009) or Federigo Tozzi (Amberson 2014) and Luigi Pirandello Jansen 2020 andDriscoll 2017).…”