Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot (eBook, ePUB)

A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, Time catches up with genius ... Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.

The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someoneor somethingnamed Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802198822
• Artikelnr.: 38236796

Autorenporträt

Praise for Waiting for Godot:

One of the true masterpieces of the century. Clive Barnes, The New York Times

One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain.The Times (London)

Beckett is an incomparable spellbinder. He writes with rhetoric and music that . . . make a poet green with envy. Stephen Spender

Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.Paul Auster

[Godot is ] among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. The nonstory of two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives, the play became the ur-text for theatrical innovation and existential thought in the latter half of 20th century. Christopher Isherwood, The New York Times

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.