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Cargando... I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader (edición 1994)por Samuel Beckett
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Surprisingly funny and dark. An important volume. So great to see early work like "Dante and the Lobster" alongside the later works. Below, a few lines that show his sharp-witted sensibility: -- From "Dante and the Lobster:" "Now the great thing was to avoid being accosted. To be stopped at this stage and have conversational nuisance committed all over him would be a disaster." "His aunt was in the garden, tending whatever flowers die at that time of year." -- The opening line of the brilliant "Murphy:" "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." -- From "The Expelled:" "I would have crushed him gladly, I loathe children, and it would have been doing him a service, but I was afraid of reprisals. Everyone is a parent, that is what keeps you from hoping." This would be placed more accurately on my "currently reading" list, but the start of fall semester seems to have strong armed this one back onto the shelf. When I have some free time, however, I plan on going back to explore the rich and ridiculous prose, poetry and drama of this writer. I don't know if I really get the "big idea" yet, but I have a feeling that might be the point... that there really is no big idea. Do I win? Anthologies in general, and so by association this one, can be effective tools to explore the the works of a specific author, although Beckett may not be as fitting for a high school room as the likes of Poe or Twain. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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What is common to most of Beckett’s work is humor, especially in his classic play “Waiting for Godot,” always a joy to read and re-read. ( )