Author of the Month: Samuel Beckett
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Our Author of the Month for March is the legendary Samuel Beckett: playwright, novelist, poet, French Resistance fighter and Nobel laureate. The citation from the Swedish Academy praised his invention of ‘new forms for the novel and drama, in which the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation’.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Molloy’s first publication in English, Faber are reissuing Beckett’s ‘trilogy’ – Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable – in gorgeous new covers and with introductions from Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride respectively. If you’re new to Beckett – and what a treat you have in store if so – Molloy is the place to start.
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Introduced by Colm TóibínThe first of Samuel Beckett's three great novels, reissued for a new generation.The iconic trilogy of novels by the Nobel Prize-winning legend, relaunched for a new generation.I am still alive then.…
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Introduced by Claire-Louise BennettThe second of Samuel Beckett's three great novels, reissued for a new generation.The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.Nothing is more real than…
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Introduced by Eimear McBrideThe third of Samuel Beckett's three great novels, reissued for a new generation.The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.I can't go on, I'll go on.The…
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Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was…
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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.…
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His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his…
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The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.…
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Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 by Samuel Beckett - Texts for Nothing /Fizzles / Residua - edited by Mark Nixon.This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published…
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Watt by Samuel Beckett - for the first time in Faber editions, a newly edited and corrected text of this classic novel.Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was…
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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to 'what is the word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of…
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These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the…
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The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett, including All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for Theatre, Embers, Roughs for Radio, Words and…
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Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it…
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Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett is vintage Beckett, his first post-war work and the first novel the Nobel Prize-winning playwright wrote in French.Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Beckett’s…
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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. …
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These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. Ill…
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