Samuel Beckett by Gerry Dukes

Samuel Beckett by Gerry Dukes

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Zusammenfassung

Samuel Beckett is part of the "Penguin Writers: Illustrated Lives" series - mini-biographies of significant modern writers. Each book contains a biographical essay organized around interesting visual docmentation that relates to each life.

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Samuel Beckett by Gerry Dukes

"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100 evocative images, many in colour and some previously unpublished, which depict the author's world - family, friends and artistic circle together with original book jackets, letters and other ephemera. Samuel Beckett was perhaps the most unconventional playwright of the 20th century. His plays broke all the rules by dispensing with traditional concepts of plot, scene and character, concentrating instead on the experience of the drama itself. An intensely private man, Beckett's work was profoundly influenced by his relationship with his mother and what he called her "savage loving", and by the tensions and hypocrisies of his divided country. In his work, he presents us with our own humanity; the hopelessness and the solitude, the bizarre tragicomedy of life itself.
Gerry Dukes is a Lecturer at Limerick University. He has lectured on Beckett in London, Oxford, New York and Berlin, and written all the Programme Notes for the Beckett Festivals in Dublin, New York and London.
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ISBN 13 9780140294705
ISBN 10 0140294708
Titel Samuel Beckett
Autor Gerry Dukes
Serie Penguin Illustrated Lives S
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2001-11-29
Seitenanzahl 176
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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