Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.
Watt
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219835X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
Murphy
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802198365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.
Eleuthéria
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: OR Books
ISBN: 1682190188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
By the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature Before the classic Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett wrote Eleuthéria. Legend has it that the great French director Roger Blin was given his choice of the two plays. Waiting for Godot won out.Eleuthéria, which has seventeen characters and elaborate and numerous scene changes, was virtually forgotten for the next forty years. As Beckett scholars have noted, elements in Eleuthéria prefigure many of the themes and characters of Beckett’s most important plays. Beyond the historical interest of this “lost” work, there is also the mesmerizing quality of the master playwright’s language. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was a playwright, poet and novelist whose work has had a formative influence on 20th century culture. Born in Foxrock, Ireland, he moved to Paris after an abortive attempt at being an academic. Years of penury and obscurity followed, during which time he consorted with artists such as James Joyce, Alberto Giacometti, and Marcel Duchamp. During World War II, he was an active member of the French Resistance, and after the war he was honored with the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. In 1954, Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” was introduced to an unsuspecting America by Barney Rosset at Grove Press; Beckett became a signature author of the fledgling company. Although he was highly regarded by a small circle of literary aficionados, it was not until Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (he famously gave away the prize money that accompanied it) that his work began to reach a wider audience. His writing is characterized by meticulousness and a ceaseless fascination with the puzzle of fitting words to actions, and with the simultaneous impossibility and necessity of doing so that marks the human condition.
Fizzles
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802140296
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Eight short prose pieces written between 1973-1975.
First Love and Other Shorts
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
'First Love', a man's musings about his youth occasioned by his visit to his father's grave, was first written by Samuel Beckett in French in 1945, but it wasn't until 1973 that he completed this the English translation.
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he distilled his ideas most powerfully. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski.
Molloy ; Malone Dies ; The Unnamable
Author: Samuel BeckettMore Pricks Than Kicks
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett’s antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah. Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures his marriage, and meets his accidental death. These early stories point to the qualities of precision, restraint, satire, and poetry found in Beckett’s mature works, and reveal the beginning stages of Beckett’s underlying theme of bewilderment in the face of suffering.