books by Samuel Beckett     books:       I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader4 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 Essential to understanding Beckett This is a very wise introduction to Samuel Beckett's work. If you haven't discovered one of the most profound voices of the 20th century, then this book is the way to do it. By far his most accessible work is the short play Krapp's Last Tape and it is in this volume complete. Waiting for Godot is also here as well as excerpts from Beckett's prose and some of his later plays like Not I. ...             Stories and Texts for Nothing2 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 Not for Nothing Bloody bleeding brilliant!             Fizzles2 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Pr, 1976 Awesome! [...] Fizzles is a queer collection of eight drabbles that can easily be taken as poetry; it tastes just like Beckett, so if you know and love his work, you're sure to enjoy this.             Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels8 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1995 Unbelievable These three novels represent Samuel Beckett's greatest accomplishment. What are they about you might ask? Let's just say that they're about everything and nothing. They are profound commentaries on the universal existential crises plaguing all of mankind, and an utterly fascinating reduction of what it means to be a human. Be forewarned: these novels are extremely modern, abstract works of ...             Worstward Ho2 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Pr, 1984 From The Inside Outwards... To most of those who DO know, Beckett's genius has manifested itself in the double act of of Vladimir and Estragon; a kind of existentialist slapstick if you will. However, the purest beauty of this Irishman's vision lies in his prose. It is here, and only here, that it resolves into a state approaching the calm and the silence, toward which each and every one of silently yearns. At first ...             Collected poems, 1930-19782 reviews Samuel Beckett J. Calder, 1984 A more concise form of expression Samuel Beckett is known most widely for his plays ("Waiting for Godot") and his prose ("Molloy") than his poetry, but this collection displays to the reader that Beckett had a mastery over every literary form, including the world of verse. Beckett's poetry bears many of the same styles and composition methods as other 20th century writers such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, but where these ...             What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings4 reviews Andre Breton Pathfinder Press (NY), 1978 Can't say enough how interesting, easy-to-read this is Well, what a shock. A totally human, big, fat tome on an art form that I've never enjoyed. Makes understandable and useful for one's own life the surrealists' aim of dissolving the alienating barriers between thought and action, dream and consciousness, art and life. Their appreciation of Freud; their collaboration with communists, with Leon Trotsky; their rejection of fatherland, religion, ...             Molloy7 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Pr, 1955 The Promise Molloy is a novel that influenced the writing of novels to come after it. Samuel Beckett was among many of the writers after World War II who experienced "the anxiety of influence" and the shadow of Modernism. It was among many novels written in the 1940's that defined a space for new literature to exist in, where it had never been quite before. Modernism on the whole was perhaps not as ...             The Grove Centenary Editions of Samuel Beckett Boxed Set: Contains Novels I and II of Samuel Beckett, The ...7 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 2006 Beautiful artifacts If you're even looking at this set, wondering whether you should buy them; you've read some Beckett and been deeply struck by his work. I'm just reviewing the physical books themselves.... They are beautiful, the covers bear perfect icongraphic images, the paper is quality, the binding is well done. If you're looking for a review of the words these books contain; they are corrected directly from ...             Proust (Calderbooks)3 reviews Samuel Beckett J. Calder, 1976 On of the best works on Proust, ever One of the best studies ever written about Proust's novel is also one of the earliest. Beckett's reading underscores the novel's pessimism--the bleak futility of human relations, the stupifying effects of Habit, the "poisonous ingenuity" of Time--yet is itself a brisk, erudite, hilarious, dark, and exhilarating piece of Modernist literary criticism.             Watt (Collection Merlin)18 reviews Samuel Beckett Olympia Press, 1953 Roller-coaster existentialism, and fun, too! "Watt" is the hilarious story of an itinerant character who walks one day from a train station, like a homing pigeon, straight to the home of a man whom he will serve. He enters the kitchen to take his spot, whereupon the present kitchen worker issues a rambling monologue of stunning length and baffling content, then leaves the household for Watt to stay behind. In the first few pages, we are ...             Happy Days1 review Samuel Beckett Faber and Faber, 1985 The Illustrious Beckett Reveals Himself An essential tool for anyone interesting in producing Samuel Beckett's full-length play, Happy Days, this production notebook serves as an explanation to not only the author's sometimes unrecognized references and sources as well as difficulties with the technical elements of production (for example, how the original production coped with the necessity for a flaming parasol). Even if one is ...             The Unnamable1 review Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1978 Beautiful This is absolutely fantastic a beautiful performance. thank godot the actor is irish. in my humble opinion an american accent would not have worked Its the best book I have heard scince Jeremy Irons reading Lolita but dont forgeot to get the other two in the trillogy as well             A Samuel Beckett Reader (NEL Modern Classics)1 review Samuel (Calder, John) Beckett New English Library Ltd., 1967 In the end we are all impotent Norman Mailer once said about the work of Beckett that ' we are not all impotent'. For the man- of - would - be action Mailer Beckett's focusing on the end game, on the sloth of it all, of our not being able to be more than our poor bodies let us seep- seemed a poor caricature of the human condition. But Beckett saw a fundamental truth of human life of the human situation in a way no other writer ...             Murphy15 reviews Samuel Beckett San Quentin Drama Workshop, 2001 Comic-tragic masterpiece Murphy is a novel unlike any other. Quite deliberately, Beckett's characters are not portrayed with realistic fullness, and the plot is fragmented and incomplete. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable read if conventional expectations are suspended. Beckett's early work is often compared to Joyce, but they are actually very different. Beckett's works are essentially tragic-comic. There is one ...             Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces1 review Samuel Beckett Random House~trade Bold Explorations Into the Void A collection of six short pieces by Beckett (Cascando, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Play, Come and Go, and Film) for different performance mediums (radio, television, stage, film). None of these pieces are over thirty pages, and make for easy reading. The theme of the book can be summed up in Beckett's Berkeleyan introduction to the script to "Film": "Esse est percipi. All extraneous perception ...             The Complete Dramatic Works1 review Samuel Beckett Faber and Faber, 1986 'No Matter,Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better' I bought this book few years ago, when I was still new to the writings of Samuel Beckett. Today, however I rate Beckett very highly. He has been an inspiration to many. I admire the unique and arcane atmosphere he is able to create with his characters, who frequently appear to be too intimate to one's entity. I also admire the illusion of straightforward storytelling and it's poetic repetition. ...             That Time (Faber paperbacks)1 review Samuel Beckett Faber and Faber, 1976 One of Beckett's most overpowering masterpieces. Most of Beckett's plays follow one of three patterns - the Godot-like double act routine; the patterned, ritualistic plays; the plays where a man (sometimes a woman) looks back on, reflects on, or is confronted with his past. 'Krapp's Last Tape' is the most famous of these latter, although excellent variations include 'A Piece of Monologue' and 'Rough For Theatre 2'. 'That Time' is 'Krapp' taken ...             Company1 review Samuel Beckett Grove Pr, 1981 "Company" is a Worthwhile, Haunting Tale "Company" is a haunting tale of one man about whom nothing is known, who spends his final hours alone in a pitch black room. His sanity is questionable at best in this sensory-deprived state, and he tells himself stories and even makes up imaginary friends with whom he converses to pass the time (this is the titular company he seeks). Beautifully written, this piece flows like a prose poem and ...             Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable31 reviews Samuel Beckett Riverrun Press (New York, NY), 1995 A carcass in God's image and a contemporary skull The trilogy is Beckett HQ. Step right up. When you come back down might I suggest a trip through the anterooms that are Texts for Nothing? Go on, restore yourself to the feasible. Number 7 in particular is certain to unbuckle your trunions. Seriously, it is here we are reminded that heads are only wound up once. And that, as Denis Johnson might say, is almost too beautiful to laugh about. 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