Dec 23, 2009

Ill Seen Ill Said | Ill Seen Ill Said

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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Ill Seen Ill Said | Ill Seen Ill Said

At a glance:

The Novel

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