Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett’s short prose Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett’s presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose. These texts are notoriously difficult yet utterly compelling. This compelling difficulty arises from Beckett’s radical dismantling of the idea of the human. His short texts offer instead an image of a being who may be posthumous, or ultimate