Stories and Texts for Nothing
by Samuel Beckett
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Read in June, 2008
Three short stories about aged men shouldered aside by society, expecting little, receiving even less, musing as they meander, forward, homeless, hoping to find some other place to rest world-weariness, all told in exceedingly spare and condensed style echoing the stark simplicity of the men's silent lives.
Texts for Nothing? Thirteen condensed and compressed vignettes of thoughts from the verge between life and, well, what? Maybe already past the verge, no, maybe not yet past, maybe stil...more
Texts for Nothing? Thirteen condensed and compressed vignettes of thoughts from the verge between life and, well, what? Maybe already past the verge, no, maybe not yet past, maybe stil...more
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While most people are familiar with "Waiting for Godot," the play that made him famous, few have braved Beckett's prose writing. Dense and dreamlike only scratch the surface, having been influenced heavily by Joyce and Proust, Beckett sets out to destroy every convention and form of thought available to language, so that we are left with plotless, settingless, and even characterless stories that nonetheless explore the despair and consciousness of what it means to be alive. Not for the...more
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Double D the great.
This book. I thought that I would read this book, perhaps a park bench. I would read at a park bench, as apposed to a flight of steps, too much traffic on the steps, too many feet kicking at me, kicking my back, and then the laughter and ridicule of reading on the steps. I would not have this and wouldn't want to have it. My position in the universe is most settled at a park bench, yes.
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Mel Burke, a professor here, quoted this in the convocation speech yesterday. I've known him a week and I aleady think that he's the greatest teacher and writer I've ever known, so anything he recommends I will read wholeheartedly.
Plus, Dr. Burke went to school with Saumel Beckett. 'Nuff said.
Plus, Dr. Burke went to school with Saumel Beckett. 'Nuff said.
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I completely didn't "get" this till I was left in the white and grey office in a very grumpy temper. Then it felt like I had entered a pool of radiance, if radiance can be grey...
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Read in April, 2007
A mockery of langauge. I don't think I was read for it. Or else it was just awful.
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Read in November, 2006
recommends it for:
Anyone curious about Beckett's fiction who isn't ready to commit to the novels.
A great introduction to Beckett's non-dramatic prose works.
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