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The Complete Dramatic Works
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.
'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner.
Contents:
Waiting for Godot.
Endgame.
Happy Days.
All That Fall.
Acts Without Words.
Krapp's Last Tape.
Roughs for the Theatre.
Embers.
Roughs for the Radio.
Words and Music.
Cascando.
Play.
Film.
The Old Tune.
Come and Go.
Eh Joe.
Breath.
Not I.
That Time.
Footfalls.
Ghost Trio
...but the clouds....
A Piece of Monologue.
Rockaby.
Ohio Impromptu.
Quad.
Catastrophe.
Nacht und Traume.
What Where.
'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner.
Contents:
Waiting for Godot.
Endgame.
Happy Days.
All That Fall.
Acts Without Words.
Krapp's Last Tape.
Roughs for the Theatre.
Embers.
Roughs for the Radio.
Words and Music.
Cascando.
Play.
Film.
The Old Tune.
Come and Go.
Eh Joe.
Breath.
Not I.
That Time.
Footfalls.
Ghost Trio
...but the clouds....
A Piece of Monologue.
Rockaby.
Ohio Impromptu.
Quad.
Catastrophe.
Nacht und Traume.
What Where.
480 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1961
About the author
Samuel Beckett
959 books6,813 followersNovels 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.
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.
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February 5, 2022
Em boa hora surgiu, até que enfim, esta compilação de toda a dramaturgia de Samuel Beckett, um autor inteligente, divertido e um tanto perturbador.
July 5, 2026
Ter oportunidade de ler todo o Teatro de Beckett, além das peças de À Espera de Godot ou Dias Felizes ou Play, mesmo as pequenas peças experimentalistas e inventivas é um pedaço de Céu e um prazer indescritível.
Ser um leitor pobre que não pode ver as peças em excelentes teatros com poderosos atores que as transformam em Pedaços de Humanidade e Arte, ao menos assim se pode imaginar o mundo de absurdo teatral que o Mestre imaginou.
Documento imperdível e precioso. Para ser consultado vezes sem conta.
Ser um leitor pobre que não pode ver as peças em excelentes teatros com poderosos atores que as transformam em Pedaços de Humanidade e Arte, ao menos assim se pode imaginar o mundo de absurdo teatral que o Mestre imaginou.
Documento imperdível e precioso. Para ser consultado vezes sem conta.
November 11, 2020
comprado para ler "endgame" e "happy days".
a releitura do sr. godot vai ter de esperar...
a releitura do sr. godot vai ter de esperar...
September 24, 2022
“Estou a usar as palavras que você me ensinou. Se já nada querem dizer, então ensine-me outras. Ou deixe-me ficar calado.”
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