02824nam 2200589 a 450 991078492800332120230725024559.01-282-79601-197866127960121-86189-713-8(CKB)2670000000035292(EBL)618755(OCoLC)671647734(SSID)ssj0000398849(PQKBManifestationID)11292754(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000398849(PQKBWorkID)10375050(PQKB)10643053(MiAaPQ)EBC618755(Au-PeEL)EBL618755(CaPaEBR)ebr10404265(CaONFJC)MIL279601(EXLCZ)99267000000003529220100803d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSamuel Beckett[electronic resource] /Andrew GibsonLondon Reaktion Books20101 online resource (207 p.)Critical livesDescription based upon print version of record.1-86189-517-8 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Fuck Life; 1. Arriving at an End: Ireland, 1906-28; 2. Not Worth Tuppence: Paris and the Ecole Normale Superieure, 1928-30; 3. The Ruthless Cunning of the Sane: London, 1933-5; 4. Melancholia im dritten Reich: Germany, 1936-7; 5. ""Elimination des dechets"": The War, Resistance, Vichy France, 1939-44; 6. ""Indignities"": Liberation, the Purge, de Gaulle, 1994-9; 7. Make Sense Who May: A World at Cold War, 1950-85; 8. Where He Happened To Be: Capital ""Triumphans"", 1985-9; Afterword: To Begin Yet Again; References; Select Bibliography; AcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsWriter Samuel Beckett (1906-89) is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the despair in his work is never absolute, instead it is intertwined with black humor and an indomitable will to endure--characteristics best embodied by his most famous characters, Vladimir and Estragon, in the play Waiting for Godot. Beckett himself was a supremely modern, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted biographies and resisted letting himself be pigeonholed by easy interpretation or single definition.Critical lives (London, England)Dramatists, Irish20th centuryBiographyDramatists, Irish822.912IH 15721rvkGibson Andrew1949-302388MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784928003321Samuel Beckett3672576UNINA