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Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408857669
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett written by James Knowlson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip.;The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding.;Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.;James Knowlson is the general editor of "The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett".

Damned to Fame

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802141255
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame written by James Knowlson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.

Damned to Fame

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747531692
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame written by James Knowlson and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of Waiting for Godot in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. James Knowlson is the general editor of The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett

Author : Deirdre Bair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671691732
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Deirdre Bair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Images of Beckett

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521822589
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Images of Beckett written by James Knowlson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Beckett's biographer and friend and hitherto unknown photographs by one of the leading theatre photographers in the field.

Dream of Fair to Middling Women

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571358063
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Dream of Fair to Middling Women written by Samuel Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559707725
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett written by Samuel Beckett and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first part of this book, Beckett, a notably reclusive man, talks candidly with his official biographer, James Knowlson, about his family, his youth, his school years in Dublin, his early life in Paris as lecteur at the famed Ecole Normale Superieure, his friendship with James Joyce, his work in the French resistance movement during the Nazi occupation, his precipitous flight from Paris when his involvement was discovered by the Gestapo, his clandestine years in the Vaucluse region of southern France, his postwar volunteer work with the Irish Red Cross Hospital in Saint-Lo, and his return to Paris in the late 1940s to resume his literary life." "In the second part, friends and colleagues share their memories of Beckett as a schoolboy, a teacher, a struggling young writer, and a sudden success in 1953 with the appearance of Waiting for Godot, which propelled him from virtual unknown to world-renowned. Actors with whom he worked, including Hume Cronyn, Jean Martin, Jessica Tandy, and Billie Whitelaw, relate their experiences; fellow playwrights and authors Edward Albee, Paul Auster, E. M. Cioran, J. M. Coetzee, Eugene Ionesco, Edna O'Brien, and Tom Stoppard speak of his work and its influence on theirs. One entire chapter is devoted to Beckett as director, for as time went on Beckett, first modestly, then authoritatively, oversaw the direction of many of his plays in France, Germany, and England."--BOOK JACKET.

A Country Road, A Tree

Author : Jo Baker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101947195
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Country Road, A Tree written by Jo Baker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a remarkable imagining of Samuel Beckett’s wartime experiences. In 1939 Paris, the ground rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées, and a young, unknown writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon he will put them both in mortal danger by joining the Resistance. Through the years that follow, we are witness to the workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language to express a shattered world. A story of survival and determination, of spies and artists, passion and danger, A Country Road, A Tree is a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into one man’s timeless art.

Beckett's Happy Days

Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814254028
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Beckett's Happy Days written by S. E. Gontarski and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's Happy Days: A Manuscript Study by S. E. Gontarski traces the development of Samuel Beckett's final two-act play, composed in English between October 1960 and May 1961, through annotated and bedoodled manuscript notebooks, holographs, and typescript drafts to the final published and performed text. The analysis details Beckett's most salient alterations and revisions, including his development of the work's tapestry of fragmented, half-remembered literary allusions. The current reissue of Beckett's Happy Days comes at a timely moment not only in Beckett studies but also in the general growth in programs of book history and digital humanities. Gontarski's study is not just a look back to origins. It traces an arc of research that developed over forty years as the Samuel Beckett archive at the University of Reading matured, as the fields of genetic and textual research grew, and as book history reemerged on a grand, international scale. In this timeframe, the Beckett Digital Manuscript and Library Projects responded to interest in Beckett studies and archival studies, taking textual production, genetic study, and book history into the twenty-first century with their emphasis on electronic access and digital collation. At The Ohio State University, the Rare Books and Manuscripts archive held papers central to Gontarski's study. Beckett's Happy Days is thus a fundamental, even seminal, part of that forty-year scholarly trajectory, and in its current edition, is readily accessible to individual students and scholars alike.

Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747578826
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett written by James Knowlson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature; he was also famously reclusive. Here, in these intimate interviews conducted by his biographer, James Knowlson, Beckett and his family, friends and contemporaries reveal more of the human side of the writer than we have ever seen before. In the first part of the book Beckett talks about his family, his early youth, his friendship with James Joyce and his Resistance work in Paris during the war, when he was forced to flee from the Gestapo and live out the remaining war years in the Vaucluse region of Southern France. In the second part, some of Beckett's closest friends remember him as a schoolboy, as a struggling writer, and then as an international success in the 1950s with his novels and plays, including the world-famous Waiting For Godot. Among the contributors are actors he worked with, including Billie Whitelaw, Brenda Bruce and Jean Martin, and writers who felt the impact of his achievement, including Edward Albee, Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee and Aiden Higgins. Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout, the book contains wonderful insights into Beckett's world.

Samuel Beckett

Author : Anthony Cronin
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780007330041
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Anthony Cronin and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cronin profiles the life and literary career of the Irish writer.

Samuel Beckett's Library

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001269
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Library written by Dirk Van Hulle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

Star Authors

Author : Joe Moran
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745315195
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Star Authors written by Joe Moran and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-02-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity just another result of ‘dumbing down’? Yet another example of the mass media turning everything into entertainment? Or is it a much more unstable, complex phenomenon? And what does the American experience tell us about the future of British literary celebrity?In Star Authors, Joe Moran shows how publishers, the media and authors themselves create and disseminate literary celebrity. He looks at such famous contemporary authors as Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Philip Roth, Kathy Acker, Nicholson Baker, Paul Auster and Jay McInerney. Through an examination of their own work, biographical information, media representations and promotional material, Moran illustrates the nature of modern literary celebrity. He argues that authors actively negotiate their own celebrity rather than simply having it imposed upon them – from reclusive authors such as Salinger and Pynchon, famed for their very lack of public engagement, to media-friendly authors such as Updike and McInerney. Star Authors analyses literary celebrity in the context of the historical links between literature, advertising and publicity in America; the economics of literary production; and the cultural capital involved in the marketing and consumption of books and authors.

Disjecta

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780802198426
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Disjecta written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[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.

Watt

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219835X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Watt written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

How It Is

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198805
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book How It Is written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life “is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing”; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett. But I am reasonably certain that a sensitive reader who journeys through How It Is will leave the book convinced that Beckett says more that is relevant to experience in our time than Shakespeare does in Macbeth. It should come as no surprise if a decade or so hence How It Is is appraised as a masterpiece of modern literature. This poetic novel is Beckett at his height.” — Webster Schott “A wonderful book, written in the sparest prose. . . . Beckett is one of the rare creative minds in our times.” — Alan Pryce-Jones “What is novel is the absolute sureness of design. . . built phrase by phrase into a beautifully and tightly wrought structure — a few dozen expressions permuted with deliberate redundancy accumulate meaning even as they are emptied of it, and offer themselves as points of radiation in a strange web of utter illusion.” — Hugh Kenner

Lowside of the Road

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767927095
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Lowside of the Road written by Barney Hoskyns and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat autobiographical, fans still know very little about the man himself. Notoriously private, Waits has consistently and deliberately blurred the line between fact and fiction, public and private personas, until it has become impossible to delineate between truth and self-fabricated legend. Lowside of the Road is the first serious biography to cut through the myths and make sense of the life and career of this beloved icon. Barney Hoskyns has gained unprecedented access to Waits’s inner circle and also draws on interviews he has done with Waits over the years. Spanning his extraordinary forty-year career from Closing Time to Orphans, from his perilous “jazzbo” years in 1970s LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this definitive biography charts Waits’s life and art step by step, album by album. Barney Hoskyns has written a rock biography—much like the subject himself—unlike any other. It is a unique take on one of rock’s great enigmas.