Beckett before Godot
In Beckett before Godot, John Pilling (editor of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett) re-evaluates the formative years of Beckett between the publication of his first work in 1929 and the composition late in 1946 of The Calmative, his last work bef...
Beckett: Waiting for Godot
This 2004 volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and influential plays in the history of the theatre. Lawren...
Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all aspects of their staging. In this book David Bradb...
En attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett
En attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot/En Attendant Godot
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, 'Time catches up with genius. . . . Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.' Beckett wrote the play in French and then translated it into English himself. In doing so he chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text, the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore its nuances. Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told director Alan Schneider, 'If I knew, I would have said so in the play.' Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most poignant and humorous allegories of our time.
Waiting for Godot
Written in French and first performed at the Théâtre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and fir...
I väntan på Godot, E-bok
Vladimir (Didi) och Estragon (Gogo) möts nära landsvägen, vid trädet. De delar en morot. Funderar över på om de ska hänga sig; väger för och emot. I väntan på Godot. Samuel Becketts I väntan på Godot [En attendant Godot, 1953] är den moderna dramatikens kanske mest revolutionerande pjäs, vars titel till och med blivit ett fast uttryck på många språk. I väntan på Godot poetisk, drömlik, absurd har ofta tolkats som en allegori över mänsklighetens outtröttliga jakt på mening, och som sådan är den outsinligt magisk och vacker. Becketts expressionistiska minimalism var inte endast banbrytande för scenen, utan fångade med precision världslägets stämning just efter andra världskriget. Här i svensk översättning av Magnus Hedlund. SAMUEL BECKETT föddes 1906 i Dublin av irländska föräldrar och var bosatt i Frankrike från 1938 till sin död. Han skrev fem romaner, men det var som dramatiker han vann världsberömmelse. 1969 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur. 1900-talets viktigaste drama i British Royal National Theatres omröstning »I väntan på Godot hör till de mest studerade, omskrivna, hyllade och upphöjda verken över huvud taget. Dramat blev själva ur-texten för scenisk innovation och existentiellt tänkande under andra halvan av 1900-talet.« | Christopher Isherwood, New York Times/b>
Deleuze and Beckett
Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvr...
Beckett and Philosophy
Beckett and Philosophy examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French and German thought. There are two wide-ranging overview chapters by Richard Begam (Beckett and Postfoundationalism) and Rober...
Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies
Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies explores the evolution of critical approaches to Beckett's writing. It will appeal to graduate students (and advance undergraduates) as well as scholars, for it offers both an overview of Beckett studies...
Samuel Beckett in Context
When Samuel Beckett first came to international prominence with the success of Waiting for Godot, many critics believed the play was divorced from any recognisable context. The two tramps, and the master and servant they encounter, seemed to repre...
Samuel Beckett in Context
When Samuel Beckett first came to international prominence with the success of Waiting for Godot, many critics believed the play was divorced from any recognisable context. The two tramps, and the master and servant they encounter, seemed to repre...
Magic of Silence
No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature.¿ He inspired Samuel Beckett to write¿Waiting for Godot¿and Walt Disney to...
Beckett's Dantes
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemp...
Beckett's Dantes
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first study in English on the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with con...
Beckett and Politics
This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett's life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett's ...
About Beckett
In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Beckett's work is so significant and enduring. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in 1961 and his book is filled not only with insi...
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett
In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett...
I Väntan På Godot - En Tragikomedi I Två Akter
»I väntan på Godot hör till de mest studerade, omskrivna, hyllade och upphöjda verken över huvud taget. Dramat blev själva ur-texten för scenisk innovation och existentiellt tänkande under andra halvan av 1900-talet.« | Christopher Isherwood, New York Times Vladimir (Didi) och Estragon (Gogo) möts nära landsvägen, vid trädet. De delar en morot. Funderar över på om de ska hänga sig; väger för och emot. I väntan på Godot.Samuel Becketts I väntan på Godot [En attendant Godot, 1953] är den moderna dramatikens kanske mest revolutionerande pjäs, vars titel till och med blivit ett fast uttryck på många språk. I väntan på Godot - poetisk, drömlik, absurd - har ofta tolkats som en allegori över mänsklighetens outtröttliga jakt på mening, och som sådan är den outsinligt magisk och vacker. Becketts expressionistiska minimalism var inte endast banbrytande för scenen, utan fångade med precision världslägets stämning just efter andra världskriget.Här i svensk översättning av Magnus HedlundSAMUEL BECKETT föddes 1906 i Dublin av irländska föräldrar och var bosatt i Frankrike från 1938 till sin död. Han skrev fem romaner, men det var som dramatiker han vann världsberömmelse. 1969 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur.1900-talets viktigaste drama i British Royal National Theatres omröstning »I väntan på Godot hör till de mest studerade, omskrivna, hyllade och upphöjda verken över huvud taget. Dramat blev själva ur-texten för scenisk innovation och existentiellt tänkande under andra halvan av 1900-talet.« | Christopher Isherwood, New York Times»Ett av vår generations ädlaste och mest rörande verk.« | The Times »Ett av århundradets verkliga mästerverk.« | The New York Times
Beckett and Musicality
Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his per...
Om I väntan på Godot av Samuel Beckett, E-bok
Översättaren Magnus Hedlunds efterskrift till Samuel Becketts I väntan på Godot. Om I väntan på Godot: Samuel Becketts I väntan på Godot [En attendant Godot, 1953] är den moderna dramatikens kanske mest revolutionerande pjäs, vars titel till och med blivit ett fast uttryck på många språk. I väntan på Godot poetisk, drömlik, absurd har ofta tolkats som en allegori över mänsklighetens outtröttliga jakt på mening, och som sådan är den outsinligt magisk och vacker. Becketts expressionistiska minimalism var inte endast banbrytande för scenen, utan fångade med precision världslägets stämning just efter andra världskriget.
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Little has been written about Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900-1989). As Samuel Beckett's lifelong companion, she found herself in a peculiar quandary, owing to the amounts of support required by Beckett's unease with success and with...
Thomas the Obscure
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contain...
Beckett Matters
Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical,...
Beckett Matters
Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year period Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical...
Beckett Canon
Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the c...
Samuel Beckett
Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representation Samuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable seriousness of the post-Holocaust situation. How can the...
Samuel Beckett
Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his eno...
Samuel Beckett
In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the histori...
On Beckett
"On Beckett: Essays and Criticism" is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about ...
Transdisciplinary Beckett
This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett's use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett's complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process. Investigating specific instances where Beckett's writing adopts musical or visual structures, Lucy Jeffery identifies instances of Beckett's transdisciplinarity and considers how this approach to writing facilitates ways of expressing familiar Beckettian themes of abstraction, ambiguity, longing, and endlessness. With case studies spanning forty years, she evaluates Beckett's stylistic shifts in relation to the cultural context, particularly the technological advancements and artistic movements, during which they were written. With new examples from Beckett's notebooks, critical essays, and letters, Transdisciplinary Beckett evidences how the drastic changes that took
Avaimet onneen, Ljudbok
Nora Robertsin Majatalo-trilogian ensimmäinen osa vie Boonsboron pikkukaupunkiin ja esittelee sen omaperäiset asukkaat. Boonsboroon haluaa palata yhä uudelleen ja uudelleen.Arkkitehti Beckett Montgomery kunnostaa vanhaa hotellia isoveljiensä ja äitinsä kanssa pienessä Boonsboron kaupungissa. Beckett on ollut ihastunut paikallisen kirjakaupan omistajaan Clareen jo lukioajoista, mutta odottaa vieläkin ensisuudelmaa tämän kanssa. Kolmen vilkkaan pojan yksinhuoltaja Clare on kyllä huomannut Beckettin – kukapa ei olisi? – mutta elämä ei aina mene suunnitelmien mukaan. Arjen keskellä ei romantiikalle tunnu löytyvän aikaa, mutta rakastumista ei pahinkaan remontti voi estää.Samaan aikaan kun vanha hotelli saa uuden ulkoasun ja elämän, Clare huomaa katsovansa Beckettiä aivan eri tavalla kuin ennen. Keskellä kaoottista remonttityömaata ovi toisensa jälkeen aukenee, ja elämä kutsuu sisään.
Waiting for Godot
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, i...
Waiting for Godot
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, 'Time catches up with genius ... Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.' The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
