Novels II of Samuel Beckett
A four-volume set of Beckett’s canon, edited by Paul Auster and designed by Laura Lindgren.
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Nohow On
“This is the most wonderful prose I have ever read by [Beckett]—sleek, ironic, gloom-cadenced, self-dissolving—and perhaps the most wonderful prose I have ever read.”…
keep readingMurphy
“The humor and tragedy of Murphy’s search for his own self has been set down in the brilliant, highly individual style that also distinguishes…
keep readingMore Pricks Than Kicks
“It is in the vaudeville aspect that his exuberance gleams, and it is his exuberance – even the exuberance of his despair – that…
keep readingMolloy
‘samuel Beckett is one of the great playwrights of our age. . . . As a novelist he is just as important. His novels, like all important works of art, have the stamp of the inevitable on them: they had to be written and, though we suffer reading them, we…
keep readingMercier and Camier
“A comedy of high style, terser and, I think, funnier than any of his other novels.” —A. Alvarez, The Observer (London)
keep readingKrapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic 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 readingI Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
“A rich anthology . . . . An exemplary introduction to the world of Beckett.” –Mel Gussow, Newsday
keep readingHow It Is
“The absolute sureness of design. . . built phrase by phrase into a beautifully and tightly wrought structure–a few dozen expressions permuted with deliberate…
keep readingHappy Days
“A marvelously constructed tragicomedy. It helps to remind us of Beckett’s skills as a portraitist—a draper of vigorous flesh on what might have resulted…
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