Tag Archives: Samuel Beckett
Rockaby & Other Short Pieces
“In love with the aside, the tangential comment, the footnote and the mathematical calculation . . . Beckett has fashioned a vehicle for himself in drama and prose that allows him to be romantic and irreverent at one and the same instant.” —The New Republic…
keep readingWatt
“I could show you a Beckett sentence as elegant in its implications as the binomial theorem, and another as economically sphinx-like as the square…
keep readingWaiting for Godot
“One of the true masterpieces of the century.” —Clive Barnes, The New York Times
keep readingWaiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition
“[Godot is] among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century….
keep readingThree Novels
“More powerful and important than Godot. . . . Mr. Beckett seeks to empty the novel of its usual recognizable objects—plot, situation, characters—and yet…
keep readingStories and Texts for Nothing
“This volume of Beckett miniatures–three longish stories and thirteen vignettes, [comprises] fragments from the finest body of work produced by any [contemporary] writer.” –Newsweek
keep readingShorter Plays Theatrical Notebooks
“A gold mine for Beckett fans who wish to dig for anecdotes, incidents, allusions, and analogies that appear throughout almost everything he wrote ….
keep readingThe Selected Works of Samuel Beckett
“Beckett’s writings constitute probably the most significant body of work produced by a twentieth-century author, in that they’re taken to signify the greatest number…
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