The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett

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Cathleen Culotta Andonian

Book Code: GR8910

ISBN: 0-313-28910-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28910-1

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440 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 6/30/1998

List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Literature » World Literature

Series Title: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters

Series Number: 30

Description: Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature, Irish-born author Samuel Beckett earned a solid reputation for being one of the most important authors of the 20th century. Best known as the author of Waiting for Godot, Beckett wrote other dramatic works, such as Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape. He wrote several novels, including Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and a number of poems and short stories. His innovative approach to language, character, plot, and narrative style was appreciated but sometimes criticized, and his nontraditional concepts of time and space taught readers to approach literature in a new way. Though he experimented with literary forms, his works are within the 20th century intellectual tradition of alienation, isolation, and pessimism. Through essays and reviews, this reference book documents the critical response to Beckett's poetry, fiction, and drama from his earliest works to the public reaction to his death in 1989. Because Beckett often wrote in French and then translated his works into English, scholars responded to several versions of the same work. Because Beckett also had an exceptional knowledge of world literature, philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences, his works are dense with meaning and have invited a broad range of critical approaches. This reference is divided into several sections that roughly correspond with the different genres Beckett utilized. Within each section, reviews and seminal articles are arranged chronologically, so that the reader may trace the response to Beckett over time. An introductory essay discusses the overall response to Beckett, and a bibliography lists works for further reading.

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword
Introduction
Early Prose and Poetry
The Novel: Murphy, Watt, and the Trilogy
Early Theatrical Works
Return to Prose: How It Is
Interviews and Personal Reminiscences
Radio and Film
Beckett is Awarded the Nobel Prize
Late Theatrical Works
Poetry, Short Stories and Prose Texts
Final Tribute
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 97-44888

LCC Class: PR6003

Dewey Class: 848


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