Samuel Beckett

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Standard Name: Beckett, Samuel
SB , 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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Textual Production Anne Carson
The angle-bracket in the title is an accident which Carson made permanent: the name, she says, which her computer gave to her draft. Another technical glitch accounts for the fact that [m]ost of the text...
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
The book, published by NC 's Hours Press , included poems by Richard Aldington and Samuel Beckett and had a photomontage cover designed by Man Ray .
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf.
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Textual Production Nancy Cunard
The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across...
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS (as Henrietta Leslie) entitled her autobiography (in a defiantly optimistic reversal of a proverbial phrase) More Ha'Pence Than Kicks.
OCLC lists an edition published in 1900 as held by five libraries in...
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce , SB did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Contributions included Samuel Beckett 's Dante . . . Bruno , Vico ...
Textual Production Zadie Smith
She titled two successive articles in the Guardian in January 2007 Fail Better and Read Better, remembering Samuel Beckett 's Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better (from Worstward Ho, 1983).
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
This was one of The Dolphin Books published by Chatto and Windus , a series including works by T. F. Powys (The Only Penitent) and Samuel Beckett (Proust).
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michelene Wandor
In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW 's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite student of English literature.
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender</span> by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
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The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...
Wealth and Poverty Djuna Barnes
By this time she relied on stipends from Peggy Guggenheim and Natalie Barney in order to live. She also received money from Samuel Beckett , Janet Flanner , and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

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