Dramatic Works and Dialogues (v.2) (Beckett Short) - Softcover

Beckett, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714542148 ISBN 13: 9780714542140

Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This volume contains two dramatic works by Samuel Beckett and
his Dialogues with the art critic George Duthuit on the nature of art.
'Human Wishes' is a fragment of a play begun in 1938 and never completed
about Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale. It points the way to the post-war
'Eleutheria', written just before 'Waiting for Godot'. 'Come and Go' dates
from 1967 when the author was producing highly concentrated short plays of
great poignancy. Three school friends, now old women, each tell a secret
about one of the others, a tragedy delicately told in a few minutes. The
Duthuit Dialogues, discussions of the art of Tal Coat, André Masson and
Bram van Velde, enable Beckett to expound his highly unconventional views
on the nature and purpose of art. The other speaker is the art critic
George Duthuit.

About this title

From the Publisher

This is part of a series of twelve short volumes brought out
ten years after the great writer's death, containing the best of the
shorter writing, ranging from early work to his final writings. All have
covers with the photographs of Samuel Beckett taken by the Irish
photographer John Minihan, which, catching the author in different moods,
have become classics on their own.

About the Author

Samuel Beckett was born in a suburb of Dublin in 1906 and died
in Paris in 1989. After school in Northern Ireland he went to Trinity
College in Dublin where he distinguished himself in French and Italian and
was recognised as a brilliant scholar, who under an exchange arrangement
taught at the Ecole Normale Supérieure before becoming a writer. He left
Ireland and finally settled in Paris, staying in France during the war
where he was a courier in the Résistance. He won the Nobel Prize in 1969
and is now recognised as one of the major writers of the 20th century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714542148
• ISBN 13: 9780714542140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32