SHANE WELLER is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include
A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism (2005),
Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), and
Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).