On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour

By Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

The desire not to desire is crucial to Samuel Beckett and Giacomo Leopardi. Beckett explores this theme in Proust where Leopardi’s poem “A Se Stesso” is thrice quoted. Before citing this poem, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the philosophers…

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