Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: 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.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 [of Samuel Beckett]
Author: Stanley E. Gontarski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Worstward Ho
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Selections from Beckett's "Worstward Ho" in cursive script (from marking pen?) paired with original artists' gouaches by Klaus Zylla on facing pages.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Selections from Beckett's "Worstward Ho" in cursive script (from marking pen?) paired with original artists' gouaches by Klaus Zylla on facing pages.
Collected Poems in English and French
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198449
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198449
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
Fizzles
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802140296
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Eight short prose pieces written between 1973-1975.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802140296
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Eight short prose pieces written between 1973-1975.
Nohow On
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind’s boundless expanse. In Company, a man—"one on his back in the dark"—hears a voice speak to him, describing significant moments from his lifetime, and yet these memories may be merely fables and figments invented for the sake of companionship. Ill Seen Ill Said tells of a solitary old woman who paces around a cabin, burdened by existence itself. And Worstword Ho explores a world devoid of rationality and purpose, containing the famous directive: "Try again. Fail Again. Fail Better." The quintessential distillation of Beckett’s philosophy on human existence and the ultimate example of his minimalist approach to fiction, Nohow On is a vital collection, concerned with conception and perception, memory and imagination.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind’s boundless expanse. In Company, a man—"one on his back in the dark"—hears a voice speak to him, describing significant moments from his lifetime, and yet these memories may be merely fables and figments invented for the sake of companionship. Ill Seen Ill Said tells of a solitary old woman who paces around a cabin, burdened by existence itself. And Worstword Ho explores a world devoid of rationality and purpose, containing the famous directive: "Try again. Fail Again. Fail Better." The quintessential distillation of Beckett’s philosophy on human existence and the ultimate example of his minimalist approach to fiction, Nohow On is a vital collection, concerned with conception and perception, memory and imagination.
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571358063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Beckett's first 'literary landmark' ( St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' ( New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571358063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Beckett's first 'literary landmark' ( St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' ( New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
Murphy
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.