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Samuel Beckett is the author of Eleutheria (2019), The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett (2021), Collected Poems in English and French (1977), All Strange Away (1979), Endgame (2012).

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Eleutheria

release date: Dec 03, 2019
Eleutheria
Written in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in ''normal'' life while accepting handouts from his mother. Often richly comic, it contains elements of high farce and draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama. This new edition includes the notice by Jérôme Lindon, in its original French, which accompanied the first edition in 1995, explaining the circumstances under which the play was first published.

The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett

release date: Aug 05, 2021
The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett
Vol III of the four-volume series reproducing Beckett''s theatrical notebooks in facsimile - now in affordable paperback edition.

Collected Poems in English and French

Collected Poems in English and French
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.

Endgame

release date: Aug 16, 2012
Endgame
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM: Clov! CLOV: Yes. HAMM: Nature has forgotten us. CLOV: There''s no more nature. HAMM: No more nature! You exaggerate. CLOV: In the vicinity. HAMM: But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! CLOV: Then she hasn''t forgotten us.

As the Story was Told

release date: Jan 01, 1990

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release date: Jan 01, 1989
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Collected here in one volume, Samuel Beckett''s three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of his later prose works, come together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to one on his back in the dark and speaks to him, describing significant moments in life, and yet we are told it is all a fable, memories or figments devised or imagined for the sake of company. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett''s position as one of the great writers of our time.

Malone Dies, a Novel

Malone Dies, a Novel
A dying man explores his imagination and begins to lose his identity.

The Complete Dramatic Works

release date: Jan 01, 1990
The Complete Dramatic Works
Samuel Beckett''s bleak vision represents the attempts of an honest and heroic artist to find some hope in the no-man''s-land of contemporary existence. His plays for the theatre and radio are imbued with listlessness, desolation and despair, but always some hope of redemption is to be found in the dogged stoicism and sardonic gallows humour of his characters. Like no other dramatist before him, or since, Beckett captured the pathos and ironies of modern life, yet still maintained his faith in man''s capacity for compassion and survival, no matter how absurd his environment may have become.

Proust

Proust
Essay over het werk van de biseksuele schrijver Marcel Proust.

Mercier and Camier

Mercier and Camier
One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett''s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes'' epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least "did not remove from home, they had that good fortune."

Happy Days

Happy Days
In ''Happy Days, '' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present.

Fizzles

Fizzles
Eight short prose pieces, written between 1960 and 1975, continue Beckett''s unsparing and spare-styled exploration of the dark ways and circumscribed passages of twentieth-century life
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