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Samuel Beckett is Closed

Author : Michael Coffey
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 9781944869595
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett is Closed written by Michael Coffey and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, genre-defying meditation, with Beckett at its origin, that touches on mysteries as varied as literary celebrity, baseball, and why we feel the need to be cruel to one another Following the schema of Samuel Beckett's unpublished "Long Observation of the Ray," of which only six manuscript pages exist, poet and critic Michael Coffey interleaves multiple narratives according to an arithmetic sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes. This rhythm of themes and genres--involving personal memoir, literary criticism, Beckett studies, contemporary political reportage and accounts of state-sponsored torture in appropriated texts, plus an Arabian Tale and even a baseballplay-by-play--produce a work at once sculptural, theatrical, mathematical and above all lyrical, a new form of narrative answering to a freshened rule set. In executing Beckett's most radical undertaking--one scholar referred to "Long Observation of the Ray" as a "monument to extinction"--Coffey gives readers access to an open field in which ruminations on writing mix with an engagement with Beckett scholarship as well as the unsettling chaos in today's world. Although Beckett, like any writer, had his share of abandoned works, he was in the habit of "unabandoning" on occasion. Coffey's effort here salvages a Beckett project from a half-century ago and brings it to the surface, with the contemporary markings of its hauling.

Samuel Beckett Is Closed

Author : Michael Coffey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944869540
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett Is Closed written by Michael Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, genre-defying meditation, with Beckett at its origin, that touches on mysteries as varied as literary celebrity, baseball, and why we feel the need to be cruel to one another.

How it is

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802150660
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book How it is written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.

Beckett's Political Imagination

Author : Emilie Morin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841799X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Beckett's Political Imagination written by Emilie Morin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.

The Business of Naming Things

Author : Michael Coffey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934137864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Naming Things written by Michael Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant tales of fathers, sons, and the search for connection from a wise new voice in American fiction

Samuel Beckett in Confinement

Author : James Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350112348
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett in Confinement written by James Little and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett's work. Covering the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics. "James Little's Beckett in Confinement offers a brilliant analysis of the politics behind Beckett's production of closed space, both as a writer and as a director. It carefully examines the move from writing about closed space to creating an art of confinement. To argue that Beckett's use of confined space is central to the political dynamics of his works, James Little also superbly employs genetic criticism to open up the confined space of the published text and bring highly relevant draft materials back into the critical conversation." Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of Oxford, UK "The many characters Beckett invented share one characteristic: they are all imprisoned or trapped in some way, no matter where they are. Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space draws on untapped riches from Beckett's correspondence and the archives to reconsider the obsession with entrapment, coercion and detention central to Beckett's varied oeuvre. In this exciting and illuminating analysis, James Little offers a fresh and original reading of the work's ethical and political dimensions, and shows us why we need to stop thinking about confinement as a metaphysical metaphor." Emilie Morin, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York, UK "Little breaks new ground in this expansive investigation to explore how confinement is a central component of Beckett's political aesthetics ... The reader is guided by a crisp and easy style of writing as Little demonstrates a command of sources which are broad in scope, but negotiated to form a compelling and impactful study." Journal of Beckett Studies

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.

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.

Nohow On

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198341
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Nohow On written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

More Pricks Than Kicks

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198376
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book More Pricks Than Kicks written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett’s antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah. Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures his marriage, and meets his accidental death. These early stories point to the qualities of precision, restraint, satire, and poetry found in Beckett’s mature works, and reveal the beginning stages of Beckett’s underlying theme of bewilderment in the face of suffering.

Ill Seen Ill Said

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714538921
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Ill Seen Ill Said written by Samuel Beckett and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Samuel Beckett and the Arts

Author : Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378519
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Arts written by Lois Oppenheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first section of the book focuses on music; the second part analyses the visual arts; and the third part examines film, radio and television. This book uncovers aspects of his thinking on, and use of the arts that have been little studied, including the nonfigurative function of music and art in Beckett’s work; the ‘collaborations’ undertaken by composers, painters and choreographers with his texts; the relation of his literary to his visual and musical artistry; and his use of film, radio and television as innovative means and celebration of artistic process.

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213696
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism written by Wimbush Andy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

As the Story was Told

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book As the Story was Told written by Samuel Beckett and published by London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles written by Samuel Beckett and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198406
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book I Can't Go On, I'll Go On written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed look at his work. Included, among others, are: - The complete plays Waiting for Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Not I, and That Time - Selections from his novels Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, and The Unnamable - The shorter works “Dante and the Lobster,” “The Expelled,” Imagination Dead Imagine, and Lessness - A selection of Beckett’s poetry and critical writings With an indispensable introduction by editor and Beckett intimate Richard Seaver, and featuring a useful select bibliography, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On is indeed an invaluable introduction to a writer who has changed the face of modern literature.

Collected Poems in English and French

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198449
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems in English and French written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.