LEADER 03490nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910818253003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73112-9 010 $a9786611731120 010 $a0-300-13202-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300132021 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472134 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171478 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947315 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219590 035 $a(PQKB)11591241 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419875 035 $a(DE-B1597)485383 035 $a(OCoLC)1024014848 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300132021 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419875 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167924 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173112 035 $a(OCoLC)923587323 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472134 100 $a20011101d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading Godot /$fLois Gordon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven, Conn. $cYale University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource ([ix], 214 p.) )$cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-09286-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tONE. The First Forty Years, 1906-46: Origins of a Vision and Form --$tTWO. Waiting for Godot: The Existential Dimension --$tTHREE. The Dream as a Manifestation of Unconscious Language and Emotion: The Conglomerative Effect --$tFOUR. The Conglomerative Voice: Cain and Abel --$tFIVE. The Language of Dreams: The Anatomy of the Conglomerative Effect --$tSIX. ''The key word . . . is 'perhaps' '' --$tSEVEN. Staging the Conglomerative Effect --$tEIGHT. Crystallization of a Vision and Form --$tNOTES --$tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aWaiting for Godot has been acclaimed as the greatest play of the twentieth century. It is also the most elusive: two lifelong friends sing, dance, laugh, weep, and question their fate on a road that descends from and goes nowhere. Throughout, they repeat their intention "Let's go," but this is inevitably followed by the direction "(They do not move.)." This is Beckett's poetic construct of the human condition. Lois Gordon, author of The World of Samuel Beckett, has written a fascinating and illuminating introduction to Beckett's great work for general readers, students, and specialists. Critically sophisticated and historically informed, it approaches the play scene by scene, exploring the text linguistically, philosophically, critically, and biographically. Gordon argues that the play portrays more than the rational mind's search for self and worldly definition. It also dramatizes Beckett's insights into human nature, into the emotional life that frequently invades rationality and liberates, victimizes, or paralyzes the individual. Gordon shows that Beckett portrays humanity in conflict with mysterious forces both within and outside the self, that he is an artist of the psychic distress born of relativism. 676 $a842/.914 700 $aGordon$b Lois G$0680405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818253003321 996 $aReading Godot$93969789 997 $aUNINA