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21. Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) by Samuel Beckett | |
Hardcover: 536
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(2006-03-13)
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22. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Samuel Beckett | |
Hardcover: 172
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(2008-04-30)
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A strangely engrossing nothingness
Reading Waiting for Godot After Seeing the Play Again
"I can't go on... End it, please!"
Probably the worst peace of literature ever written
Beckett's portrayal of modern life |
23. Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 160
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(2009-06-16)
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Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape
Life as a verb
Beauty by the master |
24. Collected Poems in English and French by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 160
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(1994-01-21)
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Reservations
More for enthusiasts of French poetry than of modern theater "je suis ce cours de sablequi glisse my way is in the sand flowing my peace is there in the receding mist what would I do without this worldfaceless incurious what would I do what I did yesterdayand the day before Iwould like my love to die I have never found a volume of poetry moreaccessible to people, other than poems of Rilke and of Rumi.Beckettmanages to combine a musicality of language with the communication ofcomplex and gentle heart-messages.Other poets could take a lesson fromBeckett:less is more.Not everything you commit to paper must find itsway to the marketplace; having one great book of poetry makes you no less aformidable poet than one with a dozen.Quite the contrary.
Wonderful transaltions and modernist experiments "Better on your arse than on your feet, Flat on your backthan either, dead than the lot. Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thoughtSalve and solace for the woe it wrought. sleep till death healeth comeease this life disease" ... Read more |
25. Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 116
Pages
(1995-12-06)
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
"And you, as you always were.......Alone"
Unbelievable
The Master's Masterpiece "Company"is the union and fulfillment of two of Beckett's recurrent themes - autobiography and "closed place" imagery.Its prose is spare and lyrical, evoking powerful images while its narrative style explores the ambiguities of the relationship between narrator and auditor. "Ill Seen Ill Said"is a beautiful narrative which is singular among Beckett's prose works in having a female narrator.Its expanded, yet still abstracted and "distilled", cosmology (in comparison to the "closed place" works of the '60s and '70s) represnts an interesting new direction (or destination?) for Beckett's writing.Originally written in French, this work's poetry is best appreciated in that language. "Worstward Ho" is, I believe, Beckett's masterpiece.It recapitulates all the major themes of his work - the futility of the act of expression, the poverty of language and the problematic dichotomies of perceived and perceiver and of narrator and auditor.It is written in the barest, most stripped-down prose ever composed.At the same time, it is repetitive and resonant. Less than five thousand words long, it compresses volumes of meaning.The more reduced and undetermined the language is, the more potential meanings and significations its words take on.The attempt to pare and refine leads to an ambiguity which grows and dilutes - a paradox Beckett uses with mastery.Despite appearances, the work's structure is as intentionally articulated as its prose.It is also a work of great and black humor, full of punning and wordplay.It should be savored and read and reread.
Somehow read Nohow On If youronly Beckett experience has been with the ever-popular "Waiting forGodot" or "Endgame," then you're missing out (not to detractfrom the merit of those works).But if you thought either of those workswere too difficult and still hunger for more Beckett, you might be bestserved to start with his short plays rather than thistrilogy. Nevertheless, "Nohow On" is a fascinating read. "Company" does not have any plot, setting, action, or charactersto speak of, but is still riveting and has a chilling last line."IllSeen, Ill Said"'s construction is just as vague, but not quite ascaptivating, though containing fascinating imagery."WorstwordHo" is probably the least accessable of the three, reading like astark prose poem. All in all, the trilogy is a very difficult read, but asatidfying exercise; after all, Beckett is one of the finest writers of ourtime. ... Read more |
26. Images of Beckett by James Knowlson | |
Hardcover: 174
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(2003-10-13)
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27. The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Ronan McDonald | |
Paperback: 152
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(2007-01-29)
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28. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Modern Theatre Guides) by Mark Taylor-Batty, Juliette Taylor-Batty | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2009-03-06)
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29. More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 192
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(1994-01-07)
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Sursum Corda
a neglected great
a new divine comedy
Beckett says: "Don't be a Belacqua" Sometimes humorous, somtimes shockinglypessimistic, the short story format works surprisingly well, often allowingfor especially clever closing images or phrases.The short story formatalso makes reading Beckett, rarely an easy task, a touch moreaccessable. But through it all, Beckett, the master of the declarativesentence, constantly condemns his main character; Belacqua cannot find itwithin himself to shed a tear when one of his three wives dies, nor does hebuy his new wife a new ring, recycling his old wife's ring (inscripted withher name and all) for his supposed new love.This incorrigible bumbler isintellectual to a fault, and dies friendless and unmourned.So all in all,read about Belacqua, but don't be him.
Read "Yellow" also |
30. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape (Faber Critical Guides) by John Fletcher | |
Mass Market Paperback: 150
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(2001-03)
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31. Beckett at 100: Revolving it All by Linda Ben-Zvi, Angela Moorjani | |
Paperback: 352
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(2008-01-08)
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32. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett | |
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(1978-02)
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33. Collected Poems: 1930-1978 (PBK) by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 180
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(1999-06)
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A more concise form of expression
Beckett's poetry will blow you away |
34. Damned to Fame: Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson | |
Hardcover: 887
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(1996-09-26)
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35. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought by C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski | |
Paperback: 608
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(2004-02-17)
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Easily the best reference work on Beckett known to me
A major work |
36. Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 176
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(1984-02-06)
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For Beckett scholars only
Too little, again The danger, after all, is in the neatness of identifications.
Good, rare occasional pieces "Yet Ispeak of an art turning from it in disgust, weary of its puny exploits,weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better thesame old thing, of going a little further along a drearyroad." "The stars are undoubtedly superb, as Freud remarked onreading Kant's cosmological proof of the existence ofGod." "All that should concern us is the acute and increasinganxiety of the relation itself, as though shadowed more and more darkly bya sense of invalidity, of inadequacy, of existence at the expense of allthat it excludes, all that it blinds to." Superb.It's hard toimagine giving good word to Beckett.It is better to let these wordstrickle, slide, and coagulate on their own.As Beckett quoted from Freud,"The stars are undoubtedly superb..." ... Read more |
37. Beckett Before Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Lectures on French Literature by Brigitte Le Juez | |
Paperback: 96
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(2010-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Investigating the themes and ideas that sparked Samuel Beckett’s writing career, this valuable guide explores one of the least known periods in Beckett’s early life. Having just returned from Paris where he had met James Joyce, Beckett’s brief academic career at Trinity College is detailed through a student’s extensive notes from modern French lectures delivered in 1930 and 1931. Outlining Beckett’s opinions and thoughts during a formative intellectual period, many important questions are explored, such as How did he define the modern novel of his day? What should literature strive to achieve? and What should literature avoid? Revealing the authors that he studied, praised, and criticizedincluding Racine, Flaubert, Balzac, Gide, Stendahl, and Dostoyevskythis informative study of his early teachings examine his preferences as a reader and the literary theories he was developing that later influenced his novels and drama. The many arguments discussed in this perceptive history provide an understanding of the intellectual basis of modernism and spotlight a previously unstudied stage in life of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. |
38. First Love and Other Shorts (Beckett, Samuel) by Samuel Beckett | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(1994-01-21)
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There is nothing short about Beckett's shorts
Sangers in the cemetery
The rhythm and silenced passion of his writing is amazing.
Wunnerful It has been ages since I read it, but I cannot help but recall the feeling it evoked. All in all, love fails us.All in all, we fail to tell well of the process by which it fails us.Beckett fails better than us all.God bless you, Sam, for always pointing us toward the unutterable. The other stories I do not remember.But "First Love" alone is worth all these fellows ask of you. ... Read more |
39. The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) by Samuel Beckett | |
Hardcover: 520
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(2006-03-13)
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Histronic Histonic Works made History
Beckett Brilliance
I have the 4 book hard back collection and I love it.
way too sophisticated for my tastes
Excellent edition |
40. Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image by Anthony Uhlmann | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(2009-09-24)
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