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Samuel Beckett : a biography / Deirdre Bair.

Title
Samuel Beckett : a biography / Deirdre Bair.
Author
Bair, Deirdre
Publication
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1978.

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Additional Authors
Glaser, Milton
Description
xiv, 736 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A biography of the Irish novelist and playwright who also wrote in French.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, French > 20th century > Biography
  • Authors, Irish > 20th century > Biography
  • Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
  • Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biografie.
  • Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1906-23: "You might say I had a happy childhood . . ." -- 1923-28: "Continuous amazement at the stranger in their midst" -- 1928-29: "The splendidly mad Irishman" -- 1929-30: "A young man with the itch to make and nothing to say" -- 1930-1931: ". . . lost the best" -- 1931-32: "I'll be here till I die, creeping along genteel roads on a stranger's bike" -- 1933: ". . . my father died when I was a boy, otherwise . . ." -- 1934: "Depressed ... in a confused state" -- 1935: "Time to pull the plug on London" -- Murphy: "Who is this Murphy. ... Is he, has he, anything at all?" -- 1935-38: "I am deteriorating now very rapidly" -- 1938-39: "No matter how things go, I shall stay here" -- 1939-42: "On the trot" -- 1942-45: "No symbols where none intended" -- 1946-48: "The siege in the room" -- Waiting for Godot: "A marvelous, liberating diversion" -- 1949-50: "All very fine, but the voice is failing" -- 1951-53: "Now that we are embarked on a dirty business . . ." -- 1953-54: "I can't go on and I can't get back" -- 1955-57: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness" -- 1958-60: "Perhaps my best years are gone. ... But I wouldn't want them back. Now with the fire in me now" -- 1961-62: "Back to the battle, lights and voices" -- 1963-65: "I shall have to go to New York . . ." -- 1966-69: "Quel catastrophe!" -- 1969-73: "Un inconnu célèbre" -- 1973-: "A stain upon the silence."
ISBN
0151792569
LCCN
^^^77092527^
OCLC
3540366
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library