The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Title | The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802134905 |
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
Title | Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
Title | The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2007-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802198430 |
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]
Title | The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 [of Samuel Beckett] PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley E. Gontarski |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Watt
Title | Watt PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | 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.
Worstward Ho
Title | Worstward Ho PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | Calder Publications Limited |
Total Pages | 47 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Creation |
ISBN | 9780714540061 |
Eleuthéria
Title | Eleuthéria PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | OR Books |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2014-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1682190188 |
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.