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"[Beckett's] specifications are preserved in the remarkable series of notebooks . . . now completed by S. E. Gontarski's exemplary edition of Beckett's ledgers for productions of his short late plays."-New York Review of Books

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"[Beckett's] specifications are preserved in the remarkable series of notebooks . . . now completed by S. E. Gontarski's exemplary edition of Beckett's ledgers for productions of his short late plays."-New York Review of Books
Autorenporträt
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), one of the leading literary and dramatic figures of the twentieth century, was born in Foxrock, Ireland and attended Trinity University in Dublin. In 1928, he visited Paris for the first time and fell in with a number of avant-garde writers and artists, including James Joyce. In 1937, he settled in Paris permanently. S. E. Gontarski, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, specializes in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in British, U.S., and European Modernism, and in performance theory. He has been a resident Fellow at the Djerassi Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, The Bogliasco Foundation, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been awarded Fulbright Professorships, has been Guest Editor of the following: American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Modern Fiction Studies, and most recently Drammaturgia.