|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets
|
Buy Now
Samuel Beckett (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R683
Discovery Miles 6 830
|
|
|
Samuel Beckett (Hardcover)
Series: My Reading
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett.
After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie
Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett.
In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who
may or may not be familiar with Beckett's novels and stories. She
follows his trajectory from the first unpublished novel, Dream of
Fair to Middling Women, through the great post-war trilogy of
Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and on to the ever more
experimental inventions in the shorter, later fictions, and
monologues. Through readings of his work alongside extracts from
his published correspondence, Beckett emerges as a sympathetic
human figure, a poet of productive doubt, and a brilliant stylist
of mood changes and second thoughts. Bodenheimer considers
Beckett's treatments of memory, nostalgia, and grief, and the forms
he finds to convey those essential human experiences while avoiding
melodrama or sentimentality. His dramatized relationship with his
own writing is a crucial part of that emotional landscape. His
playful jousts with the conventions of novel-writing show how, from
the start, Beckett challenged the notion of character and other
inherited novel conventions. The book also emphasizes his
dismantling of the autobiographical "I" his moving narratives of
attachment and loss, and the inimitable mixture of comedy and
pathos he creates by inventing outlandish situations to which his
characters respond in very recognizable human ways.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
