Nov 21, 2008

Beckett’s Dying Words the Clarendon Lectures, 1990 | Beckett’s Dying Words the Clarendon Lectures, 1990

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Author: Christopher B. Ricks
First Published: 1993
Type of Work: Literary criticism
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
Subjects: Language or languages, France or French people, Authors or writers, Literature, Criticism, Death or dying, Drama or dramatists, Ireland or Irish people

By “dying words,” Christopher Ricks does not mean to discuss, literally, Samuel Beckett’s deathbed utterances. If Beckett had indeed articulated some final words, Ricks has nothing to report to his readers—nor to his audience during the 1990 Clarendon Lectures, from which this volume derives. To be sure, Ricks had been acquainted—but only casually—with Beckett. He met the playwright twice, briefly; and the two exchanged a terse correspondence, mostly on technical linguistic topics. After Beckett’s death in December of 1989, a London newspaper requested Ricks to write an...

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Beckett’s Dying Words the Clarendon Lectures, 1990 | Beckett’s Dying Words the Clarendon Lectures, 1990

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