Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by BECKETT, Samuel - 1996

Brand: Grove Pr, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Brand: Grove Pr, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

New York. 1995. January 1996. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0802115772. Edited by S. E. Gontarski. 297 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by John Gall. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. He gives expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the ‘important writing,' the medium in which his ideas are most powerfully distilled. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski. In the introduction, Gontarski discusses Beckett's creative roots in the tradition of Irish storytelling and the perpetual evolution of his writing as he ‘pushed beyond recognizable external reality and… Read More

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