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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.”

The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 1982 15:43:09 +0400 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36042-first_love_and_other_shorts.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36042-first_love_and_other_shorts.html
This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled"; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36038-murphy.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36038-murphy.html
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'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity.'--Library Journal]]> Thu, 20 Sep 1984 15:43:46 +0400 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36044-three_novels.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36044-three_novels.html
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In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36029-breath_and_other_shorts.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36029-breath_and_other_shorts.html
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Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. He gives 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 his ideas are most powerfully distilled. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski. In the introduction, Gontarski discusses Beckett's creative roots in the tradition of Irish storytelling and the perpetual evolution of his writing as he "pushed beyond recognizable external reality and discrete, recognizable literary characters, replacing them with something like naked consciousness or pure being." From the 1929 "Assumption, " published in transition magazine when Beckett was twenty-three, to the aptly named "Stirrings Still, " written whe he was eighty-two, and including a new translation of "The Image" as well as the newly translated and previously unpublished "The Cliff, " Gontarski has arranged Beckett's work into a smooth chronology that suggests, as he puts it, "Beckett's own view of his art, that it is all part of a continuous process, a series."]]> Mon, 20 Sep 1982 15:43:10 +0400 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36057-stories_and_texts_for_nothing.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36057-stories_and_texts_for_nothing.html
This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, “You can’t stay here,” they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36028-how_it_is.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36028-how_it_is.html
Published as Comment c’est in French in 1961, and in Beckett’s English in 1964, How It Is divides into three equal parts and is composed throughout in brief unpunctuated paragraphs. These tell of a narrator crawling in darkness, repeating his life as he hears it, obscurely uttered by another voice. The telling is tirelessly explicit about the feelings that pervade this world, but fragmentary and vague about all else. Together with Molloy, Samuel Beckett’s How It Is counts for many readers as his greatest novel. It is also his most innovative and challenging, both stylistically and for its extreme furthering of the vision of a self in reduced circumstances, inaugurated in his earlier sequence of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable).]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36054-disjecta_miscellaneous_writings_and_a_dramatic_fragment.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36054-disjecta_miscellaneous_writings_and_a_dramatic_fragment.html
“[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.”—Stephen Spender, The New York Times Renowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett's criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his work.]]> Tue, 20 Sep 1983 15:43:11 +0400 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36058-mercier_and_camier.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36058-mercier_and_camier.html
One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett’s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes’ epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least “did not remove from home, they had that good fortune.”]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36032-more_pricks_than_kicks.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36032-more_pricks_than_kicks.html
Fiction. "More Pricks Than Kicks", Beckett's early tragicomic masterpiece, is a collection of stories about Belacqua, a student in Dublin in the twenties, his adventures, encounters and amours, that through its original style and wry commentary succeeds in turning everyday incidents into high drama and lets us see street and university life through the observant and caustic wit of the author. Highly enjoyable to read, it delights in exuberant language and the pleasure of discovery, very typical of the young writer who in the post-war years was to astonish the world with Waiting for Godot and Molloy. First published in 1934, "More Pricks Than Kicks" is Beckett's second work of fiction. It serves as an excellent introduction to the later work of one of the most seminal and exciting major writers of the twentieth century.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36033-endgame_and_act_without_words.html https://reverse-harem.library.land/samuel-beckett/36033-endgame_and_act_without_words.html
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300