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1. The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 476
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(2006-01)
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5 stars
Amazon needs to list the content of the collection
'No Matter,Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better' I often find myself spontaneously re-reading fragments or short paragraphs from this collection. It is a pity that those who appreciate Beckett's twisted perception of humanity are deprived of this volume. ... Read more |
2. Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(2009-06-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description None of the three entries in the trilogy is exactly amenable to summary.It's fair to say, though, that Molloy is the easiest to read, withat least a bare-bones narrative and an abundance of comical set pieces. Inone famous episode, the narrator spends page after page figuring out how tovary the sucking stones he carries in his pockets: Customer Reviews (36)
Heading for desolation row.
The Most Painful Read ever 5 stars !!!
High Modernism
Brief thought
the dark brilliance of a literay master |
3. The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1997-03-13)
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Beckett erases himself...
Cure for insomnia
A tale of progression
Beckett: Still Relevant Beckett had a big influence on European writing, but his influence is almost invisible on American letters. Sometimes you hear about writers being influenced by Kundera, Borges, or Kafka, but Beckett has eluded the art of writing here, with the exception of play writing. That's unfortunate, because his trilogy of novels and much of his short texts are some of the most intense, beautiful writing in the past half-century. Edward Dahlberg often talked about this sort of great writing: "It was to take me many years to realize that one has to be very lucky to write one intelligence sentence." After reading the definitive introduction by the writer S. E. Gontarski, I am convinced that Beckett is the creator of "Spoken Word." Take that to the bank! In works such as "Fizzles" and "The Lost Ones" Beckett modulates a disembodied voice that is stripped away of all mimesis, yet it is the same interior voice that permeates all his fiction. Haunting, profound, chilling. I can think of no equal to Beckett's prose writing, except maybe Dahlberg himself. Only if today's hack writing was half as good as Beckett and Dahlberg.... People should read The Complete Short Prose and Three Novels like they read the Bible. Do it now! I know why these books are worth reading! As Dahlberg once said, "What need had I of the sour pedants of humid syntax, or of courses in pedagogy, canonized illiteracy. I saw that anybody who had read twelve good books knew more than a doctor of philosophy." Nevermind these fads, these 20 under 40, and so on. Nevermind.
Beckett's little-known nonfiction |
4. The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett | |
Hardcover: 882
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(2009-02-23)
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Shines great light on Beckett's early life work
Nothing to be done... it's awesome
Like a veil
A writer finding his voice
Rating the quality of the printing and binding |
5. Murphy by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1994-01-20)
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A Borefest :o(
All out
Not Beckett Best But....
"Nothing to lose, therefore nothing to gain"
Postmodern Garbage |
6. How It Is by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 147
Pages
(1994-01-18)
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what it is(n't)
Essential!
Modern Epic Poetry
Whither the well-wrought novel?
An eerie, original novel I almostdidn't get through it myself."Post-modern hocus-pocus," Ithought sourly, as I read the first third.But it becomes oddlycompelling, even poetic.Beckett's severely minimalistic style isfascinating; there's nothing in this book except the eerily dehumanizedvoice of its narrator, a lonely monologue that generates real poignancy. The effect is like hearing a voice from beyond the grave, and it haunts themind like few conventionally written novels do. ... Read more |
7. I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 621
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(1994-01-12)
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entirely inadequate
Excellent Stories
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On; A Samuel Beckett Reader
Absurd, Tragic, Wonderful From famous works such as, "Waiting for Godot," and "Krapp's Last Tape" (plays), that force a reader to rethink their world, to classic short stories, such as, "Dante and the Lobster," that is a dive into a surreal world: this book has everything. 1,000 words is not nearly enough to get into this book at any real depth, or to even give it a proper over view.This book covers the entire spectrum of one of Ireland's greatest writers. Creater of the theater of the absurd, world renouned playwright, and man who single handedly made a place for the "shorter play," in a world that had come to expect a minimum of two acts, for a peice of drama to be considered serious. This book contains novels, novel excerpts and short stories, all of which, redefined the genres that they belonged to.Prolific, constantly changing, and reaching new hights, Beckett redefined every genre that he wrote in, and set new levels of perfection for the rest of us to reach for. One can not say enough things about this true literary genius.The best advice that I can give you is, buy this book, read it, and give yourself the perfect oppertunity to become aquainted with Beckett.This book gives a wondeful over view of each of Beckett's writing stages and the evolution of his work.
Essential to understanding Beckett |
8. Molloy by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(1994-01-12)
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Is it all a lie?!
All language is an excess of language
trips into a wall
Joyce is Smarter, Beckett's Deeper (?)
Molloy (Audiobook version) |
9. Happy Days by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(1994-01-13)
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Not my cup of metaphorical tea...
Happy Days
play set a new record for walking out
Beckett's not for everybody!
bitter end |
10. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin | |
Paperback: 645
Pages
(1999-05-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Beckett passedthrough many phases on his way to greatness: a French teacher atDublin College, a member of the Paris circle that formed around JamesJoyce in the late 1920s, and later an active participant in the FrenchResistance. The years following World War II proved a fertile time inBeckett's creative life, encompassing his transition from theautobiographical to the modernist impersonal--perhaps his greatestworks. Anthony Cronin admirably balances his portrayal of the man andthe artist, rendering the details of Beckett's uneventful life and hisrich imagination in a way that fleshes out the man even as itcelebrates the genius. Customer Reviews (6)
lyrical, personal, smart, informative
Painful
Exhaustively researched but never exhausting to read
Getting to Know Him You get a fair sense of the man and his times, and a more modulated sense of his slow climb to success, even after "Waiting for Godot" made his name. Never has fame seemed less romantic. Cronin is that best of acquaintance-biographers - no fool, but not an assassin either. Fun as well as thorough. I can't think what will come to light to make a better biography possible.
A highly readable book: a fascinating, mysterious genius |
11. The Collected Shorter Plays Beckett by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2010-07-13)
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satisfaction guaranteed !!
Beckett's best short dramatic works.
Absurd and nothing else.
Almost too much Beckett from such a small book!
Blinded by the darkness |
12. Watt by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2009-06-16)
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Watt a larf
''and they say there is no God"
Brilliant and Insane
It's so hard to get good help in a Beckett novel...
Funny AND Avant-garde |
13. Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1994-01-20)
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If it weren't written by Beckett...
A long walk nowhere...
A depressingly overrated waste of paper I think Beckett intended them to represent the mixture of boredom, madness, and detachment which is an essential part of most people's psyche (especially the thoughtful), but he does not achieve this goal in the least.There are a million books which express the desperation and hollowness of life, with a tinge of humor (and indeed there are a few moments of this book which are humorous, or at least attempts at humor).This is perhaps one of the most overrated of this sort of book. Beckett's writing style is unique and, for the most part, good.My favorite line in this book came at the end of a lengthy descriptive paragraph: "End of descriptive passage."But the actual substance of this book does not live up to the promise provided by the style.While I tend to love the strange and the unique in art (especially books about people who seem at once hideously abornal and yet universal), "Mercier and Camier" proves that not all books about distinctively bizarre characters are good. You'd be better off seeing "Waiting for Godot," or better yet, read something by Shakespeare.
Waiting for Poe In "Mercier and Camier," the journey shapes the plot as the two men parade on an endless quest. Despite its somberness, it is in some ways a warm and funny book, occasionally tinged with stinging sarcasm. There are secondary characters, skillfully and swiftly delineated, so bizarre that even the two oddities of the title are struck by their madness. Mercier and Camier are otherworldly figures themselves, but they need the trappings of the real world in order to give their story coherence, and this is no doubt part of the reason why Beckett chose to abandon them and go on to the Malones and Malloys of his later fiction. Just about this time, Beckett discovered that writing was for him the most intensely personal experience possible, depending not on verbal virtuosity or on the careful construction of the traditional novel. For him, creation satisfied only when he could plumb the depths of his unconscious, find an incident from his own life, and then work to conceal biography within the framework of his creative consciousness, changing dimensions of time and space according to the whim of his fictional voices. He reduces life to a series of tales, told first by one, then another (perhaps the same) voice, but all the voices are his. Beckett perfected this method of writing novels when he discovered what he has called the most important revelation of his literary career--the first person monologue. He found he could create a multi-dimensional universe through the use of a voice telling a story. At the same time, this relentless voice could reveal character in its most desperate loneliness, stripping it as never before in contemporary fiction. Written just before "Molloy," "Mercier and Camier" stands on the threshold of Beckett's mature fiction. There are large chunks of dialogue which he later transferred directly into Godot, but here speech is encumbered by a plot with progression and movement, albeit circuitous and often contradictory. There is a narrator, as in "Murphy" and "Watt," who occasionally intrudes to inject an acerbic comment and who thinks nothing of slowing down, speeding up, or otherwise circumventing the progress of the "pseudo-couple" (as they are called in "The Unnamable"). "Mercier and Camier" is about voluntary exile, much like Beckett's own. While it can be read as the odyssey of Beckett and the other young Irishmen who went to Paris in the 1930's hoping to gain the same success as their countryman of an older generation, James Joyce, it can also be read as two aspects of the personality of Beckett himself. Before his departure, he had been easily recognizable in Dublin by his shapeless, dirty raincoat, several sizes too large. He was plagued by recurring idiosyncratic cysts. When he wrecked his own car, he had continuous problems with his bicycle. In a drunken moment, he lost his favorite hat, which he mourned long afterwards. It is the raincoat, however, which best symbolizes the final division of his first 30 years from the rest of his life, as well as this novel's place in his canon: when he left Dublin, Beckett threw his raincoat away, just as Mercier and Camier, after throwing theirs away, walk off into their own uncertain future, looking back now and again at the heap on the ground--unwilling to go on with it, but hesitant to abandon it... ... Read more |
14. Endgame and Act Without Words | |
Paperback: 112
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(2009-06-16)
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Absurd yet Compelling
It doesn't get much better than this.
Review from a Beckett lover who was sadly disappointed
"Endgame" - Ghastly!
The bleakest of them all... |
15. Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre Bair | |
Paperback: 736
Pages
(1990-04-15)
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Happy Days
Not a definitive study of the genuis of Samuel Beckett It is also important to understand that Deirdre Bair was a PhD STUDENT when she was working on this book, and that Sam said he would neither "help nor hinder her," meaning it was not authorized.If you looking for a solid academic study of the life of Samuel Beckett, I suggest you turn to "Damned to Fame," a work by renown scholar and PERSONAL FRIEND of Sam, and the ONLY authorized biography of Beckett.This book provides a truthful and honest look at the wonderful person Sam was, and doesn't turn to unfounded selacious details for dramatic effect.
Bearing the Absolute Aloneness of One's Solitary Spirit. In 1971, while casting about for a dissertation topic, Deirdre Bair wrote to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) to ask if she could write his biography. He replied that, while he was not prepared to help her, he wouldn't hinder her either. As things turned out, he did help her to some extent, as did many others, and the result is this well-written, well-researched, and extremely illuminating account which covers the story of Beckett's life up to 1973. Although it has since been superseded by the fuller biography, 'Damned to Fame,' by Beckett's personal friend and official biographer, James Knowlson, which appeared in 1996 and which covers the whole of Beckett's life, Bair's book seems to me to be still well worth reading. The fact that she was not a personal friend had both disadvantages and advantages. Although it meant that certain things were closed off to her, at the same time it left her a certain freedom, the freedom to say things a friend might be disinclined to say. Briefly Bair sees Beckett's mother as the key factor in his formation - a cold, frigid, and neurotic woman dominated by notions of class and respectability, and determined to mold him into an ideal son who would be respected by Protestant and materialistic upper middle class Dublin society. Beckett rebelled against this treatment from an early age, and the regular campaigns of psychological torture which his mother launched whenever things didn't go her way were to lead to his years of misery, repeated bouts of serious physical illness, and eventually to the full-blown psychosis which is evident in certain of his works. With a more balanced and loving mother, and one sensitive to her son's aesthetic nature, Beckett might have led a normal and happier life, though it is doubtful he would have arrived at the shattering insights into human nature and reality that helped make him one of the greatest writers of the age. The story of Beckett's life and his extreme sufferings and spiritual anguish, as told by Deirdre Bair, is both horrifying and fascinating, and she does seem to have done her best to present it as objectively as possible, though she does allow her distaste for certain of his views to peek through at times. From her account, which covers far more than his devastating love-hate relationship with his mother, and which I can't even begin to do justice to here, we come away with an enhanced understanding of Beckett that should help anyone to better understand and appreciate his somber and often difficult works. It's true that as a mere graduate student she could hardly be expected to have a grasp of Beckett's works as extensive as that of a seasoned professor such as Knowlson. It's also true that there appear to be a number of errors and misunderstandings in her work, possibly because of her limited access to materials. But her less unctuous attitude to her subject leads me to feel that we are perhaps getting a more objective portrait of Beckett, though one that in some respects is not as detailed as that provided by Knowlson, and the serious student will want to read them both.
I Want to talk to SAMMS2
Amazing, almost perfect |
16. Stories and Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 160
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(1994-01-13)
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..but no one really knows what an ostrich sees in the sand..
Not for Nothing |
17. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James R. Knowlson | |
Paperback: 832
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(2004-04-30)
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Life of Beckett: The Heavyweight Version
Knowlson's assembled a list of details and mistaken it for a life
James Knowlson Gets Us Up Close and Personal with Samuel Beckett
the intensity of brilliance
Detailed record of the life- journey of 'The Master of 'Less ' is 'More' |
18. Mexican Poetry: An Anthology | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(1994-03-29)
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EXCELLENT COMPILATION BY OCTAVIO PAZ; DISMAL TRANSLATION BY THE YOUNG SAMUEL BECKETT |
19. Rockabye and Other Short Pieces (Beckett, Samuel) by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 80
Pages
(1994-01-13)
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A Beckett play that has had grown men (and women) in tears. Like most of Beckett's late stage works, this doesn't really work on the page - the rhythmic combination of words, images, lighting and the mechanical rocking of the chair create a startling visual-aural effect that can only be incompletely imagined.Many believe it to be staggeringly moving, though. ... Read more |
20. Samuel Beckett: Photographs | |
Paperback: 92
Pages
(1996-04-17)
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An exceptional intimate portrait of a very private man.
Wham, bam, thank you SAM! |
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