Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

A Bilingual Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ingram Publisher Services
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 139mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780802144638
• ISBN-10: 0802144632
• Artikelnr.: 27318150

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. Beckett wrote in both English and French, though his best-known works are mostly in the latter language. A prolific writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, he is remembered principally for his works for the theater, which belong to the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd and are characterized by their minimalist approach, stripping drama to its barest elements. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and commended for having 'transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation.' Beckett died in Paris in 1989.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chronology
Part I. En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot: Genesis and Reception: 1. Beckett at the beginning
2. Paris 1946-8
3. Godot in Paris, London and New York
Part II. Approaching the Play: 4. The drama of unknowingness
5. The caged dynamic
6. Rituals and routines
7. 'Godet ... Godot ... Godin ... anyhow you see who I mean?'
8. Pozzo and Lucky
9. Lucky's 'think'
10. Enter the Boy
11. Act I/Act II - 'nothing happens, twice'
12. Pozzo redux
13. Vladimir's soliloquy, the boy again, the close of the play
Part III. Godot in French and in English
Part IV. The Presence of Godot ... the Play in the Contemporary Theatre and Elsewhere: 14. The growing myth of Godot
15. Godot and the popular imagination
16. Godot and the contemporary theatre
Guide to further reading.