Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Samuel Beckett
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Standard Name: Beckett, Samuel
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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.
Her omnivorous reading during the last year of her degree included the major modern novelists, notably including Proust
and Woolf
(the darling dangerous woman who made her feel quite incapable of writing anything straight...
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.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
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Mira Enketei (from the Greek...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edna O'Brien
EOB
uses books as presiding spirits of her own writing. James Joyce
's image is at one end of the mantelpiece and Samuel Beckett
's at the other. . . . I write by hand...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Health
Nancy Cunard
At this time medical expenses in connection with a bad arm had cost her 20,000 francs.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet, 1987.
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Samuel Beckett
reported in 1956 that she was looking very wraithy.
Tayler, Christopher. “Under–the–Table–Talk”. London Review of Books, Vol.
Her literary circle in Paris was highly eclectic: the many camps in which she had friends included the Surrealist rump, the incoming Existentialists, and the Communists (who were mostly ex-Surrealists).
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet, 1987.
Samuel Beckett
, hearing of the news in Paris, remarked to Sylvia Beach
: I . . . shall think of her when I think of goodness.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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Having dedicated her life to English...
Anthologization
Ann Quin
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published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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qtd. in
Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Limited Edition, Tabb House, 1982.
