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The Essential Samuel Beckett
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Author : Enoch Brater
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Essential Samuel Beckett written by Enoch Brater and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Samuel Beckett was one of the truly seminal and influential writers of the 20th century. The Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to him in 1969 symbolized his acceptance by the international community. He is undoubtedly a 'difficult' writer, and one of the virtues of Enoch Brater's concise literary biography is to give the general reader easier access to Beckett's work, particularly his later and more elliptical theatre and prose pieces. Professor Brater follows Beckett's career from the early days in Ireland, to the efflorexcence in France just after the Second World War, and beyond that to the unfolding of his success in the rest of the world following the universal appeal of his cryptic, moving play Waiting for Godot. In his analysis of the way Beckett approaches his work, Brater emphasises the Irish rhythms in his writing, and examines, at all stages, the intriguing relationships between his fiction and his compositions for theatre, film and television. Supported by a large selection of photographs, personal and public, this is a brilliant and informed study of Beckett's life and works.
Stories And Texts For Nothing
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Stories And Texts For Nothing written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, “You can’t stay here,” they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on. Includes: “The Expelled” “The Calmative” “The End” Texts for Nothing (1-10)
Ten Ways Of Thinking About Samuel Beckett
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Author : Enoch Brater
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-06-13
Ten Ways Of Thinking About Samuel Beckett written by Enoch Brater and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often surprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic. 'An eloquent, witty and erudite collection of essays that illuminates Beckett's drama and prose fiction from a number of complementary perspectives. Brater's precise explication of the interwoven tropes of language and mise-en-scène is combined with a fine grasp of the overarching structure of work ... to create a rich and suggestive series of reflections on Beckett's aesthetics.' - Robert Gordon, Professor of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London
Three Novellas
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
Release Date : 1977
Three Novellas written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Calder Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue-delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty-of what might or might not be an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again, where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature.
How It Is
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-10-04
How It Is written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Fiction categories.
Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from within, from the dark, the story is tirelessly and intimately explicit about the feelings that pervade his world, but fragmentary and vague about all else therein or beyond. Together with Molloy, How It Is counts for many readers as Beckett's greatest accomplishment in the novel form. It is also his most challenging narrative, both stylistically and for the pessimism of its vision, which continues the themes of reduced circumstance, of another life before the present, and the self-appraising search for an essential self, which were inaugurated in the great prose narratives of his earlier trilogy. she sits aloof ten yards fifteen yards she looks up looks at me says at last to herself all is well he is working my head where is my head it rests on the table my hand trembles on the table she sees I am not sleeping the wind blows tempestuous the little clouds drive before it the table glides from light to darkness darkness to light Edited by Edouard Magessa O'Reilly
A Companion To Samuel Beckett
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Author : S. E. Gontarski
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-03-08
A Companion To Samuel Beckett written by S. E. Gontarski and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of original essays by a team of leading Beckett scholars and two of his biographers, Companion to Samuel Beckett provides a comprehensive critical reappraisal of the literary works of Samuel Beckett. Builds on the resurgence of international Beckett scholarship since the centenary of his birth, and reflects the wealth of newly released archival sources Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates A valuable addition to contemporary Beckett scholarship, and testament to the enduring influence of Beckett’s work and his position as one of the most important literary figures of our time
Stories And Texts For Nothing
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Stories And Texts For Nothing written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls "texts for nothing." Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, "You can't stay here, " they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on.
Samuel Beckett
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Author : Jean Jacques Mayoux
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1974
Samuel Beckett written by Jean Jacques Mayoux and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A well-known English author has told the story of how he discovered one of Beckett's early novels in a London public library. He appropriated the copy because the date-stamp revealed that it had only been borrowed once in the fifteen years following its publication. Samuel Beckett, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, has remained for most of his career a difficult an avant-garde writer; but like his compatriot, James Joyce, he has wielded a more potent literary influence than many authors who command a far wider public. The discoveries of modern science and mathematics have intensified the human awareness of the infinite and Beckett himself is peculiarly sensitive to the idea that man is 'a scrap of life surrounded by death, a something that encircled by nothing'. Both his novels and his plays have a predominantly philosophical bent: their aim is a search for the nature of reality rather than the construction of plausible fictions. Beckett is much concerned with the difficulties of human communication and with man's doom of solitude, and he expresses these preoccupations through a symbolism of blindness, of immobility, of an existence stripped down to the bare essentials of nutrition and excretion: these images which he has made familiar through his plays convey a sense of dereliction which is undoubtedly attuned to the spirit of the post-war world. Yet at the same time he possesses the peculiarly Irish faculty for giving this desolate vision a comic dimension. Professor Mayoux's essay traces Beckett's literary development from his early poems through the novels to his plays for the theatre and the radio, and finally to the short, rigorously compressed fables or visions of the last few years. He notes Beckett's adoption of the French language for many of his writings, a choice which seems designed to emphasize the foreign-ness, the externality of all language. Like Ionesco, Beckett has never become a French writer, but remained an Irishman writing in French.
Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 1997-09-16
Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-16 with Fiction categories.
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue–delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty–of what might or might not be an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again, where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature.
I Can T Go On I Ll Go On
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
I Can T Go On I Ll Go On written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Drama categories.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed look at his work. Included, among others, are: - The complete plays Waiting for Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Not I, and That Time - Selections from his novels Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, and The Unnamable - The shorter works “Dante and the Lobster,” “The Expelled,” Imagination Dead Imagine, and Lessness - A selection of Beckett’s poetry and critical writings With an indispensable introduction by editor and Beckett intimate Richard Seaver, and featuring a useful select bibliography, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On is indeed an invaluable introduction to a writer who has changed the face of modern literature.