Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Moments for Nothing: Endgame and Its Discontents
2. The Transitional Space Between Life and Death: "The Calmative," Molloy, and Malone Dies
3. End Times of Subjectivity: The Unnamable
4. "Laughing wildly inmidst severest woe": Happy Days and the Last Humans
5. Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: The Lost Ones
Coda: Breath and the Vicissitudes of Animation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Gabriele Schwab is distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, where she holds appointments in comparative literature, anthropology, English, and European languages and studies. She is the author of several books, most recently Radioactive Ghosts (2020). Her previous Columbia University Press books are Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity (2012) and Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (2010).