Krapp's Last Tape, and Embers - Softcover

Beckett, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571062091 ISBN 13: 9780571062096

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1998

Synopsis

Krapp sits at his desk with a tape recorder in front of him from which emanates a voice, younger, more robust, but still Krapp, relating how life felt when he was thirty-nine, while the old man records his comments. Krapp is making his last tape.

In Embers Henry, walking along the seashore, recalls his dead father, while other familiar voices speak to him from the past.

About this title

About the Author:

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

Synopsis:

In the first of these two plays, an old man records his comments as he listens to a tape recording of his own observations on how life felt when he was 39. In the second, a man walking along the seashore recalls his dead father while other familiar voices speak to him from the past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571062091
• ISBN 13: 9780571062096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48