Samuel Beckett And The Second World War

Author : William Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350106844
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Second World War written by William Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jo Baker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101947195
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Country Road, A Tree written by Jo Baker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a remarkable imagining of Samuel Beckett’s wartime experiences. In 1939 Paris, the ground rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées, and a young, unknown writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon he will put them both in mortal danger by joining the Resistance. Through the years that follow, we are witness to the workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language to express a shattered world. A story of survival and determination, of spies and artists, passion and danger, A Country Road, A Tree is a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into one man’s timeless art.

Author : Deirdre Bair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671691732
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Deirdre Bair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Author : Andrew Sobanet
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624363
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisioning French Culture written by Andrew Sobanet and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisioning French Culture brings together a striking group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects, with global Francophonie as its primary focal point.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219835X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watt written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521867948
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Samuel Beckett: written by Samuel Beckett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays - most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and his response to such fame. The volume provides detailed introductions which discuss Beckett's situation during the War and his crucial move into the French language, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408857669
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett written by James Knowlson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent 'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter's Proust and Richard Ellmann's Joyce in sensitivity and fascination' - Daily Telegraph 'It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives' - Evening Standard _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD PRIZE _______________ Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Author : Lois Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074956
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 written by Lois Gordon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot was one of the most influential works for the post-World War II generation, has long been identified with the debilitated and impotent characters he created. In this provocative book, Lois Gordon offers a new perspective on Beckett, challenging the prevalent image of him as reclusive, self-absorbed, and disturbed. Gordon investigates the first forty years of Beckett's life and finds that he was, on the contrary, a kind and generous man who responded sensitively and even heroically to the world around him. Gordon describes the various places and events that affected Beckett during this formative period: war-torn Dublin during the Easter Uprising and World War I, where he spent his childhood and student days; Belfast and Paris in the 1920s and London during the Depression, where he lived and worked; Germany in 1937, where he traveled and witnessed Hitler's brutal domestic policies; prewar and occupied France, where he was active in the Resistance (for which he was later decorated); and the war-ravaged town of Saint-L� in Normandy, which he helped to restore following the liberation. Gordon also portrays the individuals who were important to Beckett, including Jack B. Yeats, Alfred P�ron, Thomas McGreevy, and, most significantly, James Joyce, who was a model for Beckett personally, artistically, and politically. Gordon argues convincingly that Beckett was very much aware of the political and cultural turmoil of this period and that the enormously creative works he wrote after World War II can, in fact, be viewed as a product of and testament to those tumultuous times.

Author : Emilie Morin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841799X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett's Political Imagination written by Emilie Morin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.

Author : MCNAUGHTON.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191865879
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE POLITICS OF AFTERMARTH. written by MCNAUGHTON. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: