The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Enoch Brater
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 168
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780500284117
ClassificationsDewey:828.91209
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Illustrations 122 Illustrations, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 2 June 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Samuel Beckett is internationally recognized as one of the truly seminal playwrights of the twentieth century. He is undoubtedly a 'difficult' writer, and one of the virtues of Enoch Brater's concise literary biography is to give the general reader easier access to Beckett's work, particularly his later and more elliptical theatre and prose pieces. Professor Brater follows Beckett's career from the early days in Ireland, through France after the Second World War to the unfolding of his success in the rest of the world as a result of the universal appeal of 'Waiting for Godot'. In his analysis of the way Beckett approached his work, Brater emphasizes the Irish rhythms in his writing, and examines, at all stages, the intriguing relationship between his fiction and his compositions for theatre, film and television. Supported by a large selection of photographs, personal and public, here is a brilliant and informed study of Beckett's life and works.

Author Biography

Enoch Brater is Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

''After reading this book one has a true sense of the whole of Beckett's genius.'' ''122 photographs, personal and public, make the text breathe with life.''