Damned to Fame (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Knowlson
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1906-1989
- Setting: Ireland, France, Germany, and England
- Principal Characters: Samuel Beckett, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, Peggy Sinclair, James Joyce, Thomas Rudmose-Brown
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Literature, Friendship, Writing, Mental illness, Novelists, Drama or dramatists, Theater
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Ireland
James Knowlson, chair of French at the University of Reading, England, and the official biographer and long-time friend of Beckett, retraces in great detail and with an evident understanding of Beckett’s foibles and strengths, idiosyncrasies and philosophy, the path that led him to be celebrated as one of this century’s greatest writers.
Samuel Beckett was the second of two sons born to May Roe and Bill Beckett in Foxrock, County Dublin, on April 13, 1906. The Becketts were descended from Huguenots who emigrated to Ireland from France in the eighteenth century. Samuel’s...
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