Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company.
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Samuel Beckett
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, Irish expatriate poet, short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, was a major force in international twentieth-century writing and especially theatre. He wrote a high proportion of his works in French, usually doing the translations into English himself. His increasingly death-obsessed absurdity and minimalism are combined with an invincible energy of language, even while the text appears to despair of the efficacy of words.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Anne Carson | AC
dealt another glancing blow to conventional notions of genre in 2001 by titling her next verse novel The Beauty of the Husband. A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. Four poems from this work... |
| Author summary | Ann Quin | AQ
was one of the less-known English experimental writers of the 1960s. She has been likened to Graham Greene
, Nathalie Sarraute
, Samuel Beckett
, Robert Creeley
, Virginia Woolf
, and Anna Kavan |
| Occupation | Nancy Cunard | Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, |
| Occupation | Harold Pinter | He acted for this company for a year and learned a lot. He worked his way up in Shakespearean
roles from bit parts to major ones and discovered the writings of Samuel Beckett
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Harold Pinter | Always keen on acting, HP
played the solo protagonist of Beckett
's Krapp's Last Tape in a wheelchair at the Royal Court Upstairs
, in a run that began on 14 October 2006 (because an... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Kane | Meanwhile fellow-playwright Mark Ravenhill
, having initially concluded from the reviews that this was a bad play, was astonished at reading the first few lines and knowing that I was in the hands of a... |
| Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
| Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | It bore an endorsement of CBR
's work by Marina Warner
, who considered that she brilliantly fuses political engagement, Beckett
ian rhythms and experimental language as well as form. “Some Other Recommended Titles”. London Review of Books, p. 17. |
| Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Peter Hall
, its first director, likened the play to Mozart
's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Shelagh Delaney | SD
wrote her first and most successful play, A Taste of Honey, at the age of nineteen. Published interviews give conflicting reports of her motivation for writing it. One interview quotes her as saying... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Devlin | After writing for television, AD
was drawn to live theatre because of the medium's relative freedom from censorship and its enduring qualities: It is Literature. When you create a character in the theatre you are... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | The protagonist of this book, ageing Francesca Stubbs, is employed as an inspector of retirement homes. She and the other characters here, witnessing the ends' of friends' lives and approaching their own, make sense of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
looked to Pound
for technique and Beckett
for morale, appreciating in each his obstinate humour in the face of despair. Hayman, David, and Keith Cohen. “An Interview with Christine Brooke-Rose”. Contemporary Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 1, pp. 1-23. 14 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | This time only, ZF
uses a male voice for a coming-of-age story, which holds up its narrator-protagonist to mockery and a kind of despairing sympathy, as it begins with some slight adolescent petulance and becomes... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | Influenced by Samuel Beckett
's Malone Dies, this novel perpetually delays action: We'll go on as if. As if for instance I were someone else, Cassandra perhaps. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Amalgamemnon. Carcanet. 7 Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 118 |
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