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Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
246 kr
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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 KennerContents: 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.
Trilogin
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
267 kr
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Romantrilogin Molloy [1951], Malone dör [1951] och Den onämnbare [1953] brukar betraktas som Samuel Becketts viktigaste prosaverk. En svindlande undersökning av ett av människans äldsta älsklingsmotiv, ursprunget, men där all självkännedom avslöjas som illusion. Liksom karaktärerna krälar sig texten sakta men säkert fram mot sin logiska slutpunkt en värld där inga människor finns, inget medvetande. Trilogin hör till modernismens portalverk. Här samsas de tre romanerna i en och samma bok, i svensk översättning av Lill-Inger Eriksson och med ett förord av kritikern och litteraturforskaren Jesper Olsson.
SAMUEL BECKETT föddes 1906 i Dublin av irländska föräldrar och var bosatt i Frankrike från 1938 till sin död. 1969 belönades han med Nobelpriset i litteratur.
»Jag skulle kunna gå i pension, binda fast mig vid en stol och ägna all min vakna tid åt Molloy, Malone dör och Den onämnbare.« Jenny Tunedal, Aftonbladet
»Beckett äger en obönhörlig intellektuell uppriktighet och hans prosa har en naken, intrikat rytm som blir närmast hypnotisk.« | Time Magazine
»Beckett utmärks av en svårmotståndig kombination av gnäll och stoicism, misantropi och vardagsburleskt uppsluppen glädje. Det är kallt som satan och oväntat varmt, nästan tillmötesgående.« | Hallandsposten
»Beckett är ojämförlig, trollbindande... En seriös författare som har något allvarligt att säga om det mänskliga tillståndet.« | The New York Times
»Becketts trilogi är en litteratur som får tanken att svindla. Att som vuxen tillåtas tillträde till den existentiella zon där varje liten rörelse framstår som ny och outforskad är lika omtumlande som den första förälskelsen. Det går igenom hela nervsystemet.« Anna Hallberg, Dagens Nyheter
Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
147 kr
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Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see Waiting for Godot. At the worst you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live.' Harold Hobson, 7 August 1955'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly.' Samuel Beckett, 1955
I väntan på Godot : en tragikomedi i två akter
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Svenska, 2019
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(7)
258 kr
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»I väntan på Godot hör till de mest studerade, omskrivna, hyllade och upphöjda verken över huvud taget. Dramat blev själva ur-texten för scenisk innovation och existentiellt tänkande under andra halvan av 1900-talet.« | Christopher Isherwood, New York Times Vladimir
(Didi) och Estragon (Gogo) möts nära landsvägen, vid trädet. De delar en morot. Funderar över på om de ska hänga sig; väger för och emot. I väntan på Godot. Samuel Becketts I väntan på Godot [En attendant Godot, 1953] är den moderna dramatikens kanske mest revolutionerande pjäs, vars titel till och med blivit ett fast uttryck på många språk. I väntan på Godot - poetisk, drömlik, absurd - har ofta tolkats som en allegori över mänsklighetens outtröttliga jakt på mening, och som sådan är den outsinligt magisk och vacker. Becketts expressionistiska minimalism var inte endast banbrytande för scenen, utan fångade med precision världslägets stämning just efter andra världskriget. Här i svensk översättning av Magnus Hedlund
SAMUEL BECKETT föddes 1906 i Dublin av irländska föräldrar och var bosatt i Frankrike från 1938 till sin död. Han skrev fem romaner, men det var som dramatiker han vann världsberömmelse. 1969 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur.
1900-talets viktigaste drama i British Royal National Theatres omröstning
»I väntan på Godot hör till de mest studerade, omskrivna, hyllade och upphöjda verken över huvud taget. Dramat blev själva ur-texten för scenisk innovation och existentiellt tänkande under andra halvan av 1900-talet.« | Christopher Isherwood, New York Times
»Ett av vår generations ädlaste och mest rörande verk.« | The Times
»Ett av århundradets verkliga mästerverk.« | The New York Times
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Proust
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Svenska, 2021
205 kr
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) skriver som tjugofyraåring denna studie över Marcel Proust. Han arbetar vid tiden som lärare i engelska vid École normale supérieure i Paris. Boken är en av de första studierna av Proust och har uppnått klassikerstatus. Både för att den utgör en originell läsning av Proust och för att den delvis förebådar hur Beckett i sitt eget författarskap genomlyser de mänskliga villkoren.
Erik Sandins översättning har inför denna utgåva reviderats av Daniel Pedersen. Filosofen Johan Sehlberg har skrivit efterord.
Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
135 kr
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Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature.
Murphy
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
135 kr
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Edited by J. C. C. MaysMurphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancée Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure. Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. But Beckett's achievement lies in the brilliantly original language used to communicate this vision of isolation and misunderstanding. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy's world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett's prose releases characters and readers alike into exuberance.
Malone Dies
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
136 kr
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'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy. The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the barking of the dogs, at night, in the clusters of hovels up in the hills, where the stone-cutters lived, like generations of stone-cutters before them. it came down to me where I lay, in the house in the plain, wild and soft, at the limit of earshot, soon weary. The dogs of the valley replied with their gross bay all fangs and jaws and foam...
How It Is
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
135 kr
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Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from within, from the dark, the story is tirelessly and intimately explicit about the feelings that pervade his world, but fragmentary and vague about all else therein or beyond.Together with Molloy, How It Is counts for many readers as Beckett's greatest accomplishment in the novel form. It is also his most challenging narrative, both stylistically and for the pessimism of its vision, which continues the themes of reduced circumstance, of another life before the present, and the self-appraising search for an essential self, which were inaugurated in the great prose narratives of his earlier trilogy. she sits aloof ten yards fifteen yards she looks up looks at me says at last to herself all is well he is working my head where is my head it rests on the table my hand trembles on the table she sees I am not sleeping the wind blows tempestuous the little clouds drive before it the table glides from light to darkness darkness to lightEdited by Edouard Magessa O'Reilly
I väntan på Godot
AvMagnus Hedlund,Samuel Beckett
E-bok
Svenska, 2019
119 kr
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Vladimir (Didi) och Estragon (Gogo) möts nära landsvägen, vid trädet. De delar en morot. Funderar över på om de ska hänga sig; väger för och emot. I väntan på Godot. Samuel Becketts I väntan på Godot [En attendant Godot, 1953] är den moderna dramatikens kanske mest revolutionerande pjäs, vars titel till och med blivit ett fast uttryck på många språk. I väntan på Godot poetisk, drömlik, absurd har ofta tolkats som en allegori över mänsklighetens outtröttliga jakt på mening, och som sådan är den outsinligt magisk och vacker. Becketts expressionistiska minimalism var inte endast banbrytande för scenen, utan fångade med precision världslägets stämning just efter andra världskriget. Här i svensk översättning av Magnus Hedlund. SAMUEL BECKETT föddes 1906 i Dublin av irländska föräldrar och var bosatt i Frankrike från 1938 till sin död. Han skrev fem romaner, men det var som dramatiker han vann världsberömmelse. 1969 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur. 1900-talets viktigaste drama i British Royal National Theatres omröstning »I väntan på Godot hör till de mest studerade, omskrivna, hyllade och upphöjda verken över huvud taget. Dramat blev själva ur-texten för scenisk innovation och existentiellt tänkande under andra halvan av 1900-talet.« | Christopher Isherwood, New York Times/b>
Collected Poems in English and French
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
230 kr
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Proust
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
124 kr
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An electrifying analysis of one legendary giant of twentieth-century literature by another: Beckett on Proust.The whole of Proust's world comes out of a teacup . . . When he was only 25, Samuel Beckett published his first ever book: an electrifying dissection of Marcel Proust's masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu.Habit, memory and time: Beckett argues that these are the defining characteristics of the human condition. Involuntary memories - like those prompted by Proust's famous madeleine - are radical moments that pierce the veil of habit, and offer inspiration that soothes the existential anguish of time passing. Through analysing Proust's technique, the young Beckett puts forth a blazing artistic manifesto for his own future works, such as Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The result is a totemic meeting of literary minds that illuminates the philosophies of two creative geniuses.*Read in a new audiobook edition by Eimear McBride*
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
306 kr
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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. It establishes a significant new canon, and the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources, manuscripts and Beckett's extensive correspondence. The notes place each poem in context, detailing the history and circumstances of its composition; they indicate significant variants and help explain obscure turns of phrase and allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett's notebooks); they also identify resonances between poems and across Beckett's work as a whole. The commentary is written in a lively and engaging style and is intended equally for the general reader, the student of modernism and the Beckett specialist.
Samuel Beckett Trilogy
Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
249 kr
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Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps the outstanding literary work of our time. Because Beckett has a reputation for being difficult, even obscure, readers of the trilogy are bound to be struck not only by the verbal brilliance and inventiveness of the three novels, but also by their extraordinary humour which ranges from wit to broad comedy and even farce in a recognizably Irish way. Each story records an episode of human endurance in the face of metaphysical adversity with compassion and wisdom and each is a compelling narrative in itself in the great tradition of European fiction from Flaubert to Joyce.
Molloy
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
136 kr
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Molloy is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion novels Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human, begets a parallel tale of the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent in search of him, whose own deterioration during the quest joins in with the catalogue of Molloy's woes. Molloy brings a world into existence with finicking certainties, at the tip of whoever is holding the pencil, and trades larger uncertainties with the reader.Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.Edited by Shane Weller
Unnamable
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
136 kr
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The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones...') as diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether. But, as with the other novels in the trilogy, the prose is full of marvellous precisions, full of its own reasons for keeping going....perhaps the words have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Teater. Samtliga pjäser
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
423 kr
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Teater samlar Samuel Becketts samtliga pjäser. De 32 pjäser, texter för teater, film, scenen etc. som Beckett skrev under sin livstid. De omfattar de allra första traditionella dramatiska pjäserna, som Beckett sedan förbjudit att de ska uppföras, till de sena experimentella och i princip helt tysta performanceliknande texterna.
Alla i översättning av Magnus Hedlund.
Pjäserna som ingår är:
Mänskliga önskningar, Eleutheria, I väntan på Godot, Alla dem som falla, Slutspel, Akt utan ord i och ii, Krapps sista band, Fragment för teater i, Fragment för teater ii, Askglöd, Lyckliga dagar, Utkast för radio i, Utkast för radio ii, Ord och musik, Cascando, Spel, Film, Kommer och går, Va, Joe, Andetag, Inte jag, Den gången, Fotsteg, Spöktrio, Blott som moln, Ett stycke monolog, Vaggvisa, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Katastrof, Nacht und Träume och Vad var.
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Waiting for Godot
AvSamuel Beckett,Manfred Pfister
Häftad, Engelska
123 kr
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Samuel Beckett
AvRosemarie Bodenheimer
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
231 kr
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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 postwar 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. Professor 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.
Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable: A Trilogy; Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
387 kr
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Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
163 kr
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Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' (Roy Walker)The present volume brings together Krapp's Last Tape and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It will be complemented by a forthcoming Faber edition of dramatic works written for radio and screen. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays exhibit the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision. KRAPP 'Here I end this reel. Box - [Pause.] - three, spool - [Pause.] - five. [Pause.] Perhaps my best years have gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [Staring motionless before him.]
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Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
259 kr
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End
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
60 kr
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'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Proust
AvSamuel Beckett
Inbunden, Svenska, 2027
183 kr
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Samuel Beckett and the Second World War
Politics, Propaganda and a 'Universe Become Provisional'
AvWilliam Davies,Matthew Feldman
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 603 kr
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In the wake of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett wrote some of the most significant literary works of the 20th century. This is the first full-length historical study to examine the far-reaching impact of the war on Beckett’s creative and intellectual sensibilities.Drawing on a substantial body of archival material, including letters, manuscripts, diaries and interviews, as well as a wealth of historical sources, this book explores Beckett’s writing in a range of political contexts, from the racist dogma of Nazism and aggressive traditionalism of the Vichy regime to Irish neutrality censorship and the politics of recovery in the French Fourth Republic. Along the way, Samuel Beckett and the Second World War casts new light on Beckett’s political commitments and his concepts of history as they were formed during Europe’s darkest hour.
Watt
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
127 kr
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Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from Murphy to the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe. Watt tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Itself a critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that are littered with mistakes, both major and minor. The new Faber edition offers for the first time a corrected text based on a scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history.
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
AvRuby Cohn
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
550 kr
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Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
163 kr
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Written in French and first performed at the Théâtre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first published by Faber in 1956.To mark the centenary of Beckett's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, Faber are now publishing for the first time a bilingual edition of this great masterpiece. Subtitled 'a tragicomedy in two acts', and once famously described by the Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice'. Waiting for Godot is also a play that was written twice. Here, on facing pages, the reader can watch it unfold simultaneously in two languages.
Waiting for Godot
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
228 kr
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"Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past 50 years and a cornerstone of 20th-century drama. The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning.
Murphy
AvSamuel Beckett
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
259 kr
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