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From: Company[(essay date 1980) Company is representative of Beckett’s late prose works, which feature intense imagery and rhythmic language that stresses and repeats individual words or phrases. The following excerpt from the...
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From: Not I[(essay date 1973) The following excerpt includes the exposition and opening pages of Beckett’s play Not I, an example of the radical use of fragmentation in his late work. It features a disembodied MOUTH who narrates...
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From: Critical QuarterlyJust as the `quality of language' in Proust was more important than `any system of ethics or aesthetics' [according to Beckett], so the quality of an experience in Beckett's theatre becomes more important than any system...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)With consummate skill, Samuel Beckett molded words into fiction and drama, while paradoxically protesting his own failure. Better appreciated as a playwright, Beckett took deepest pains with his fiction—much of it...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date Autumn 1995) In the following review, Hutchings examines Three Tall Women , comparing it to works by Identified only as B and C, two of the three tall women of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama...
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From: Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"A common practice in the theater is to cover the set once the play is over so that it will be the same set, "virginal" if you will, at the next performance, not changed by the dust and dirt that make their way into the...
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From: Essays in Criticism[(essay date April 2001) In the following essay, Hunter determines the influence of Joyce's Dubliners on More Pricks than Kicks.] Reviewing More Pricks than Kicks in 1934, Edwin Muir identified a Beckett very much at...
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From: William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered[(interview date 25 May 1975) In the following interview, originally conducted in 1975, Saroyan discusses his life and works with Basmadjian.] (25 May 1975 in Paris) [Basmadjian]: In February 1934 Story published The...
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From: Journal of Analytical Psychology[(essay date January 1960) In the following essay, Metman explores the different embodiments of God, treatment of women, and the depiction of the human condition in Beckett's earlier dramatic works.] Introduction...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date summer 1992) In the following essay, Pireddu considers the disjointed and confused nature of the short texts in Fizzles, arguing that these texts "exhibit the idea of aborted endeavor as their constitutive...
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From:[The revised essay excerpted below was originally published in 1961.] The French translation of [Beckett's novel] Murphy, which appeared in 1947, attracted little attention, but when Molloy was published in 1951, it...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1997) In the following essay, Kumar argues that the chess symbolism in Endgame serves as a unifying element for the play as well as a metaphor for existential uncertainty and despair.] Samuel...
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From: The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Noble underscores the common characteristics of the language in Beckett's short stories and Derrida's language theory, contending that "the texts of Derrida and Beckett speak...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The trilogy Molloy (1955), Malone Dies (1956), and The Unnamable (1958) is the culmination of Samuel Beckett's experimentation in prose fiction. The aforementioned dates are those of Beckett's own translations of the...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1998) In the following essay, Thomas studies Happy Days for evidence of a subtext influenced by D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.] The importance of Beckett's use of literary...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Ayers applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogue to "First Love."] Discussing Beckett and Bakhtin together presents a challenge, to say the least; it seems remarkable that...
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From: Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Zurbrugg shows the influence of literary Decadence on literary Modernism and Postmodernism.] To what extent can one identify parallels between the modernist and postmodern...
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From:Drama for StudentsWaiting for Godot has been and may always be a difficult work to read or view. However, much of the difficulty that readers and audiences have had with the play seems to have come from false expectations. If audiences...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Kennedy argues that although Beckett's plays have postmodernist elements, they are fundamentally different from true postmodern works.] Our general topic (at the Strasbourg...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)The three novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable come together to form what is otherwise known as `The Beckett Trilogy' (all originally written in French). While each can be read as a separate piece there is some...