Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

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Produktbeschreibung

"Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past 50 years and a cornerstone of 20th-century drama. The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 102g
• ISBN-13: 9780802144423
• ISBN-10: 080214442X
• Artikelnr.: 32898802

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. At the age of seventy-six he said: "With diminished concentration, loss of memory, obscured intelligence... the more chance there is for saying something closest to what one really is. Even though everything seems inexpressible, there remains the need to express. A child need to make a sand castle even though it makes no sense. In old age, with only a few grains of sand, one has the greatest possibility." (from Playwrights at Work, ed. by George Plimpton, 2000)

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.