Κάθαρση και άλλα έργα

by Samuel Beckett, Σάμουελ Μπέκετ, Σεραφείμ Βελέντζας (Translator)

ΚΑΘΑΡΤΗΡΙΟ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΥΠΑΡΞΙΑ: μολονότι ο ίδιος ο Μπέκετ δεν συμπαθούσε ιδιαίτερα τις αναλύσεις των έργων του, ίσως μάλιστα να τις κορόιδευε ελαφρά αποτολμώ εδώ αυτόν τον χαρακτηρισμό, θεωρώντας πως εκφράζει όσο γίνεται πιο γενικόλογα, συνεπώς πιο ακίνδυνα, το πεδίο δράσης των θεατρικών του έργων, που κι αυτά έτειναν, με την προϊούσα λιτότητά τους (ο όρος «μινιμαλισμός», παρ' όλο που έχει συνδεθεί συχνά με την ύστερη παραγωγή του Μπέκετ, μάλλον δεν τον καλύπτει απόλυτα), προς την ανυπαρξία, ή μάλλον προς την ιδέα της ανυπαρξίας.

151 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2001

About the author

Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.

People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first postmodernists. He is one of the key in what Martin Esslin called the "theater of the absurd". His later career worked with increasing minimalism.

People awarded Samuel Barclay Beckett "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

In 1984, people elected Samuel Barclay Bennett as Saoi of Aosdána.