Novels I of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett

Novels I of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett

Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Beckett's works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior editions have now been corrected in consultation with Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski. Beckett was interested in consciousness as a form of comedy close to tragedy and logic as a crime. He loved the tension in 'cogito ergo sum' and took a dim view of the connecting word, the 'ergo' in the equation. Cogitating was the nightmare from which his characters were trying to awake. Being was a sour trick played on them by some force with whom they were trying desperately not to reckon. Beckett produced infinite amounts of comedy about the business of thinking as boring, invalid, and quite unnecessary. His characters did not need to think in order to be, or be in order to think. They knew they existed because of the odd habits and deep discomforts of their bodies. I itch therefore I am." — Colm Toibin, from his Introduction

Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Ireland, and attended Trinity University in Dublin. He was one of the most important literary and dramatic giants of the twentieth century. He first went to Paris in 1928, when he met a number of avant-garde writers and artists, including James Joyce. He moved to Paris permanently in 1937. Beckett wrote in both English and French, but his most well-known pieces are in the latter. He was a prolific writer of novels, short tales, and poems, but he is most known for his theater works, which adhere to the Theater of the Absurd tradition and are distinguished by their minimalist approach, stripping drama down to its fundamental essentials.

Beckett was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, praising him for transforming man's sorrow into his exaltation. Beckett died in 1989 in Paris. He said at the age of 76, With decreasing attention, loss of memory, and blurred intelligence... The more chances there are of stating something that is true to oneself, the better.

Even though everything appears inexpressible, the impulse to express persists. Even if it makes no logic, a child must build a sand castle. With only a few grains of sand, one has the greatest chance in old age. (Adapted from Playwrights at Work, edited by A.

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ISBN 13	9780802118172
ISBN 10	0802118178
Title	Novels I of Samuel Beckett
Author	Samuel Beckett
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2006-04-27
Number of pages	496
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