Ill Seen Ill Said (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Antistory
- Time of Work: Unspecified
- Setting: Unspecified; a generalized rural location
- Principal Characters: She
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Death or dying, Cemeteries
The Novel
While he is best known as a playwright, Samuel Beckett’s devotion to fiction and the novel predates by many years his involvement with the theater and has proceeded in tandem with it, giving to his entire output a unity and continuity which his plays, when taken alone, do not provide. It may be argued that the serious student must confront Beckett’s fiction in order to attain full exposure to the intellectual and aesthetic range and challenge of this twentieth century master.
Evidence of his commitment to fiction is perhaps most impressively...
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