Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic,
Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers.
Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure
as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature
both as a man and a writer. Cronin explores how the sporty
schoolboy of solid Protestant bourgeois stock became a prizewinning
student at Trinity, flirted with scholarship, and, in Paris, found
himself at the center of its literary avant-garde as an intimate
friend of James Joyce. But he was a young man who struggled with
complexities in his own nature as well as with problems of literary
expression. In the small provincial city of Kassel, Germany, the
cosmopolitan Beckett experienced a faltering entanglement with his
cousin--one of the first in a series of problematic encounters with
women. The war years, which he spent as a member of the Resistance
and a refugee in the South of France, brought Beckett the
self-probings and discoveries that led to the great works. Then,
with his sudden and astonishing fame, the balloons of myth began to
inflate and a stereotype was born--frozen in exile and enigma,
solemnity and sanctity. Anthony Cronin bursts these balloons to see
more clearly what lies behind. Without moralizing or
psychologizing, without pretensions or piety, he uncovers the real
Beckett, the way the life was lived, the way the art was made.
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