Samuel Beckett (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Cronin
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1906-1989
- Setting: Ireland, France, Germany, and England
- Principal Characters: Samuel Beckett, William Beckett, Mary Roe Beckett, Peggy Sinclair, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, James Joyce, R. B. “Ruddy” Rudmose- Brown
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Authors or writers, Alienation, Paris, Health, Nobel Prizes, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Ireland
Of late, Samuel Beckett, the 1969 Nobel laureate in literature, has been the object of significant biographical interest. A key literary figure of the twentieth century, this practitioner of the Theater of the Absurd is revealed through insights into his emotional and mental life and through both clever and meaningful allusions to his work. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist sketches a portrait of a deeply dedicated writer, an “ordinary” Parisian Irishman, a man who was humane, profoundly learned, and unusually sensitive to his surroundings, circle of friends, and...
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