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Contents: Keir ELAM: Catastrophic mistakes: Beckett, Havel, the end. Wouter OUDEMANS: En attendant. Mary BRYDEN: Balzac to Beckett via God(eau/ot). Catharina WULF: At the crossroads of desire and creativity: a critical approach of Samuel Beckett's Television Plays "Ghost Trio," ..".but the Clouds..." and "Nacht und Traume." Rod SHARKEY: Singing in the last ditch: Beckett's Irish Rebel Songs. Ralph HEYNDELS: Tenace trace toujours trop de sens deja la. Beckett, Adorno et la modernite. Giuseppina RESTIVO: The genesis of Beckett's "ENDGAME" traced in a 1950 holograph. Serge MEITINGER: La spirale de lecriture, D'"IGITUR" AU DERNIER BECKETT. Lance ST. JOHN BUTLER: Two darks: A Solution to the problem of Beckett's Bilingualism.
This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and influential plays in the history of the theatre. Lawrence Graver discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical art. He reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original French version and his English translation.
In honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, this bilingual edition of "Waiting for Godot" features side-by-side text in French and English so readers can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity.
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 someone—or something—named 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.
"This volume analyses the genesis of Beckett's novel Malone meurt /Malone dies. Written in French in 1947-1948, and translated into English by the author in 1954-1956, it is the second part of the so-called "Trilogy," preceded by Molloy and followed by L'Innommable/The Unnamable. Because Malone's account approximates a diary, this book starts from H. Porter Abbott's notion of 'diary fiction' to examine the surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and pre-book publication extracts. Even though the writing process of Malone meurt almost coincides with the progression of the narrative, illustrating what Louis Hay has called "écriture à processus," Beckett made substantial changes to the text, which can be interpreted as a critique of Honoré de Balzac's programmatic writing method. This analysis extends to the genesis of Malone Dies (Beckett's English translation of the novel), which alludes to Balzac's novel Louis Lambert. in order to show that self-translation is a crucial and integral part of Beckett's bilingual autographic project"--Back cover.