Book Description
This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802150660
This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.
Author : Anthony Cordingley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474440622
A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiques.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080219835X
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.
Author : Michael Coffey
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2018
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781944869595
A powerful, genre-defying meditation, with Beckett at its origin, that touches on mysteries as varied as literary celebrity, baseball, and why we feel the need to be cruel to one another Following the schema of Samuel Beckett's unpublished "Long Observation of the Ray," of which only six manuscript pages exist, poet and critic Michael Coffey interleaves multiple narratives according to an arithmetic sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes. This rhythm of themes and genres--involving personal memoir, literary criticism, Beckett studies, contemporary political reportage and accounts of state-sponsored torture in appropriated texts, plus an Arabian Tale and even a baseballplay-by-play--produce a work at once sculptural, theatrical, mathematical and above all lyrical, a new form of narrative answering to a freshened rule set. In executing Beckett's most radical undertaking--one scholar referred to "Long Observation of the Ray" as a "monument to extinction"--Coffey gives readers access to an open field in which ruminations on writing mix with an engagement with Beckett scholarship as well as the unsettling chaos in today's world. Although Beckett, like any writer, had his share of abandoned works, he was in the habit of "unabandoning" on occasion. Coffey's effort here salvages a Beckett project from a half-century ago and brings it to the surface, with the contemporary markings of its hauling.
Author : Deirdre Bair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 0671691732
Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Author : Georgina Nugent-Folan
Publisher : Beckett Manuscript Project
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2022-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350214477
Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, Compagnie, was translated in only two weeks. The genetic critical analysis of the manuscripts of Company/Compagnie takes this schema-dependent compositional method as its core focus. It forwards a new hypothesis regarding the genetic map of both works, and considers the relationship between this uniquely entwined 'original' and 'translation.' This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
Author : Alan Astro
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN : 9780872496866
Presents an overview of the work of Samuel Beckett. Discussing his famous as well as lesser known texts, the book shows how his characters incorporate silence in their speech to narrate their deaths. Finally it examines Stirring Still, his last text, which evokes his own imminent death.
Author : Frederick John Hoffman
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
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Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0571300197
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,... but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.
Author : G. Herren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137109084
This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays in depth, emphasizing the central role that memory plays in these haunting works.