Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett

Download or Read eBook Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett PDF written by Samuel Beckett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9781628724929
ISBN-13 : 1628724927
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Book Synopsis Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett by : Samuel Beckett

Book excerpt: In life, Beckett was notoriously reticent, preferring to let his work speak for itself. In the first half of this collection, he reveals many of his inner thoughts and honest opinions about his life, writing, friends, and colleagues in candid interviews published for the first time in this book. He discusses his friendship with James Joyce and his role in the Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. Also included are newly discovered photographs of Beckett—as a young boy, as a teacher, as best man at a friend’s wedding, and with painter Henri Hayden. In the second half, friends and colleagues share their memories of Beckett as a schoolboy, a teacher, a struggling young writer, and a sudden success in 1953 with the appearance of Waiting for Godot. Readers will be enchanted by the poignant remembrances by those who knew him best, worked with him most closely, or admired him for his enduring influence: including actors Hume Cronyn, Jean Martin, Jessica Tandy, and Billie Whitelaw and fellow playwrights and authors Edward Albee, Paul Auster, E. M. Cioran, J. M. Coetzee, Eugène Ionesco, Edna O’Brien, and Tom Stoppard.


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