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The Beckett Trilogyby Samuel Beckett , Patrick BowlesISBN 0330256645 (0-330-25664-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Brodie's Notes on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godotby W.T. Currie, Samuel BeckettISBN 0330502190 (0-330-50219-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Companyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0330267094 (0-330-26709-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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En Attendant Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0023078308 (0-02-307830-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Endgame: A Play in One Act, Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Playerby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394475003 (0-394-47500-3)
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The Expelled and Other Novellasby Samuel BeckettISBN 0140180117 (0-14-018011-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Filmby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394172760 (0-394-17276-0)
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First Loveby Samuel BeckettISBN 0140389075 (0-14-038907-5)
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I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Workby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394406699 (0-394-40669-9)
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In Transition: A Paris Anthologyby Noel Riley Fitch, Samuel BeckettISBN 0385411618 (0-385-41161-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Transition: A Paris Anthology'Book summary:A selection of the some of the best writing to appear in "transition", one of the most important literary magazines of the 1920s in Paris, which includes work by Gide, Joyce, Jung, Kafka, Miro, Picasso and Gertrude Stein. [via]
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In Transition: A Paris Anthology Writing and Art from Transition Magazine 1927-30by Samuel BeckettISBN 0385411502 (0-385-41150-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Lost Onesby Samuel BeckettISBN 039417786X (0-394-17786-X)
Hardcover, Grove Press
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Malone Diesby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394475135 (0-394-47513-5)
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Molloyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394475151 (0-394-47515-1)
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Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamableby Samuel Beckett , Gabriel JosipoviciISBN 0375400702 (0-375-40070-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable'Book summary:Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, and that despairing pas de deux Endgame--has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (literally) from James Joyce, and absorbed everything that myopic maestro had to offer when it came to Anglo-Irish prosody. Still, Beckett's instincts would ultimately steer him away from Joyce's delirious play with high and low diction, toward a more concentrated, even compulsive style. His earlier novels, like Murphy or Watt, give us a taste of what was to come. But Beckett truly hit his stride with a trilogy of early-1950s masterpieces: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Here he dispenses with all the customary props of contemporary fiction--including exposition, plot, and increasingly, paragraphs--and turns his attention to consciousness itself. Nobody has ever evoked the pain of existence, or the steady slide toward nonexistence, with such poetic, garrulous accuracy. And once you've attuned yourself to the epistemological vaudeville of Beckett's prose, he turns out to be the funniest writer on the planet--ever.
None of the three entries in the trilogy is exactly amenable to summary. It's fair to say, though, that Molloy is the easiest to read, with at least a bare-bones narrative and an abundance of comical set pieces. In one famous episode, the narrator spends page after page figuring out how to vary the sucking stones he carries in his pockets:
And while I gazed thus at my stones, revolving interminable martingales all equally defective, and crushing handfuls of sand, so that the sand ran through my fingers and fell back on the strand, yes, while thus I lulled my mind and part of my body, one day suddenly it dawned on the former, dimly, that I might perhaps achieve my purpose without increasing the number of my pockets, or reducing the number of my stones, but simply by sacrificing the principle of trim. The meaning of this illumination, which suddenly began to sing within me, like a verse of Isaiah, or of Jeremiah, I did not penetrate at once, and notably the word trim, which I had never met with, in this sense, long remained obscure.
This nutty ratiocination goes on for much, much longer, until the narrator loses patience and throws the stones away. And that's a fair encapsulation of Beckett's philosophy: he argues for the essential pointlessness of life--the solitary, wretched splendor of human existence--but does so in a comic rather than a tragic register, which ends up softening or even overpowering the bleakness of his initial premise. So Malone Dies opens with a typically morbid mood-lifter ("I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of it all") and then makes endless comedic hay out of Malone's failure to keel over. And by the time we hit The Unnamable, we're forced to wonder whether the narrator actually exists: "I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on." Happily, Beckett worried these same questions and hypotheses to the end of his career, with increasingly minimalistic gusto. But he never topped the intensity or linguistic brilliance of this mind-bending three-part invention. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable:
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More Pricks Than Kicksby Samuel BeckettISBN 0330241591 (0-330-24159-1)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Pricks Than Kicks'Book summary:Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Becketts antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah.[via]
Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures his marriage, and meets his accidental death. These early stories point to the qualities of precision, restraint, satire, and poetry found in Becketts mature works, and reveal the beginning stages of Becketts underlying theme of bewilderment in the face of suffering.More editions of More Pricks Than Kicks:
Murphyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0330234447 (0-330-23444-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Palestine: History of a Lost Nationby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394179242 (0-394-17924-2)
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Poems in Englishby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394171969 (0-394-17196-9)
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A Samuel Beckett Readerby Samuel BeckettISBN 0330280090 (0-330-28009-0)
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Endgameby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394170547 (0-394-17054-7)
Hardcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Samuel Beckett, Wordmaster: Waiting for Godot Text with Critical Commentaryby Samuel Beckett , Ira HasanISBN 0195795156 (0-19-579515-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Stories and Texts for Nothingby Samuel BeckettISBN 039417268X (0-394-17268-X)
Softcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stories and Texts for Nothing'Book summary:This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Becketts major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing. Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, “You cant stay here, they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on.[via]
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“The Expelled
“The Calmative
“The End
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Three Novels by Samuel Beckettby Samuel BeckettISBN 039417299X (0-394-17299-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Novels by Samuel Beckett'Book summary:Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, and that despairing pas de deux Endgame--has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (literally) from James Joyce, and absorbed everything that myopic maestro had to offer when it came to Anglo-Irish prosody. Still, Beckett's instincts would ultimately steer him away from Joyce's delirious play with high and low diction, toward a more concentrated, even compulsive style. His earlier novels, like Murphy or Watt, give us a taste of what was to come. But Beckett truly hit his stride with a trilogy of early-1950s masterpieces: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Here he dispenses with all the customary props of contemporary fiction--including exposition, plot, and increasingly, paragraphs--and turns his attention to consciousness itself. Nobody has ever evoked the pain of existence, or the steady slide toward nonexistence, with such poetic, garrulous accuracy. And once you've attuned yourself to the epistemological vaudeville of Beckett's prose, he turns out to be the funniest writer on the planet--ever.
None of the three entries in the trilogy is exactly amenable to summary. It's fair to say, though, that Molloy is the easiest to read, with at least a bare-bones narrative and an abundance of comical set pieces. In one famous episode, the narrator spends page after page figuring out how to vary the sucking stones he carries in his pockets:
And while I gazed thus at my stones, revolving interminable martingales all equally defective, and crushing handfuls of sand, so that the sand ran through my fingers and fell back on the strand, yes, while thus I lulled my mind and part of my body, one day suddenly it dawned on the former, dimly, that I might perhaps achieve my purpose without increasing the number of my pockets, or reducing the number of my stones, but simply by sacrificing the principle of trim. The meaning of this illumination, which suddenly began to sing within me, like a verse of Isaiah, or of Jeremiah, I did not penetrate at once, and notably the word trim, which I had never met with, in this sense, long remained obscure.
This nutty ratiocination goes on for much, much longer, until the narrator loses patience and throws the stones away. And that's a fair encapsulation of Beckett's philosophy: he argues for the essential pointlessness of life--the solitary, wretched splendor of human existence--but does so in a comic rather than a tragic register, which ends up softening or even overpowering the bleakness of his initial premise. So Malone Dies opens with a typically morbid mood-lifter ("I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of it all") and then makes endless comedic hay out of Malone's failure to keel over. And by the time we hit The Unnamable, we're forced to wonder whether the narrator actually exists: "I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on." Happily, Beckett worried these same questions and hypotheses to the end of his career, with increasingly minimalistic gusto. But he never topped the intensity or linguistic brilliance of this mind-bending three-part invention. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Three Novels by Samuel Beckett:
Unnamableby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394475283 (0-394-47528-3)
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Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394172043 (0-394-17204-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot'Book summary:Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see "Waiting for Godot". At the worst you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live' - Harold Hobson, 7 August 1955. 'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly' - Samuel Beckett, 1955. [via]
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Waiting for Godot and Endgameby Samuel Beckett , Steven ConnorISBN 0312079508 (0-312-07950-8)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Wattby Samuel BeckettISBN 033030044X (0-330-30044-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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En Attendant Godot : Pièce en Deux Actesby Samuel Beckett , Colin DuckworthISBN 0174443838 (0-17-444383-8)
Hardcover, Nelson & Sons, Limited, Thomas
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