The Letters Of Samuel Beckett

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867940

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: by Samuel Beckett Pdf

This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays - most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and his response to such fame. The volume provides detailed introductions which discuss Beckett's situation during the War and his crucial move into the French language, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867932

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett Pdf

The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of literature and theater. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theater this edition is essential reading, offering not only a record of Beckett's achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Letters of Samuel Beckett
Page : 3200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1316506576

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett 4 Volume Hardback Set by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Author : Samuel Beckett,Alan Schneider
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674625226

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No Author Better Served by Samuel Beckett,Alan Schneider Pdf

Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.

Author : Enoch Brater
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408137239

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Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett by Enoch Brater Pdf

Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often surprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic. 'An eloquent, witty and erudite collection of essays that illuminates Beckett's drama and prose fiction from a number of complementary perspectives. Brater's precise explication of the interwoven tropes of language and mise-en-scène is combined with a fine grasp of the overarching structure of work ... to create a rich and suggestive series of reflections on Beckett's aesthetics.' - Robert Gordon, Professor of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London

Author : George Craig
Publisher : Sylph Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0956509274

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Writing Beckett's Letters by George Craig Pdf

For fifteen years George Craig has been translating into English the thousands of letters that Samuel Beckett wrote in French. In this cahier he opens that experience, describing the challenges as well as the rewards, which can go from the difficulty of deciphering Beckett s notoriously difficult handwriting to finding an English equivalent for one of Beckett s numerous verbal jokes. This cahier offers an insight into the task of the translator when the writer being translated was himself a master translator."

Author : John Crace
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571431594

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The Digested Read by John Crace Pdf

Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266869

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How It Is by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from within, from the dark, the story is tirelessly and intimately explicit about the feelings that pervade his world, but fragmentary and vague about all else therein or beyond. Together with Molloy, How It Is counts for many readers as Beckett's greatest accomplishment in the novel form. It is also his most challenging narrative, both stylistically and for the pessimism of its vision, which continues the themes of reduced circumstance, of another life before the present, and the self-appraising search for an essential self, which were inaugurated in the great prose narratives of his earlier trilogy. she sits aloof ten yards fifteen yards she looks up looks at me says at last to herself all is well he is working my head where is my head it rests on the table my hand trembles on the table she sees I am not sleeping the wind blows tempestuous the little clouds drive before it the table glides from light to darkness darkness to light Edited by Edouard Magessa O'Reilly

Author : Deirdre Bair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 9780671691738

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Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair Pdf

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 : Deirdre Bair
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385542463

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Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair Pdf

A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written—or even read—a biography before. The next seven years comprised of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games. Battling an elusive Beckett and a string of jealous, misogynistic male writers, Bair persevered. She wrote Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other—and lived essentially on the same street. Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile and influencing Bair’s own feminist beliefs. Parisian Lives draws on Bair’s extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes. This gripping memoir is full of personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.

Author : Pascale Casanova
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786635693

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Samuel Beckett by Pascale Casanova Pdf

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova provides an arresting portrait of Beckett as radically subversive—doing for writing what Kandinsky did for art—and in the process presents the key to some of the most profound enigmas of Beckett’s writing.

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472533234

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Samuel Beckett and Cinema by Anthony Paraskeva Pdf

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471855

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The New Samuel Beckett Studies by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802198440

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Collected Poems in English and French by Samuel Beckett Pdf

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.

Author : Conor Carville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108422772

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Samuel Beckett and the Visual by Conor Carville Pdf

This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.