Beckett Before Godot

ISBN-13: 9780521464963 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 292 str.

John Pilling

Opis

In Beckett before Godot, John Pilling reevaluates the formative years of Beckett between the publication of his first work in 1929 and the composition late in 1946 of The Calmative, his last work before "the trilogy." Using a wealth of unpublished manuscripts and correspondence from around the world, Pilling offers for the first time a coherent critical narrative of Beckett's development during this long period of apprenticeship. Beckett before Godot modifies and enhances our understanding of one of this century's most influential authors.

Recenzje

'Beckett Before Godot offers a much needed study of Beckett's 'formative years' from 1929 to 1946 … Beckett Before Godot demonstrates meticulous scholarship, referring to the MacGreevy correspondence and to Knowlson's biography to provide contexts for the creation of specific works.' Theatre Research International

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. 1929–1932: 2. Dante ... Bruno ... Vico ... Joyce and Assumption: 'the prospect of self-extension'; 3. From a view to a kill: Proust and Le Concentrisme; 4. Dream of Fair to Middling Women: 'a solution of continuity'; Part II. 1932–1936: 5. More poems than precipitates: towards Echo's Bones and beyond; 6. In the interval: More Pricks Than Kicks; 7. Beckett as bookman: the reviews; 8. Figure and ground: Murphy; Part III. 1937–1946: 9. Dissonance: 1937–1940; 10. Watt and Watt not; 11. Texts for something: 'a universe becomes provisional'; 12. Mercier et Camier and the nouvelles: 'the vicissitudes of the road'; 13. Conclusion.