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Beckett's Dying Words: Clarendon Lectures 1990
Christopher Ricks
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hardcover. Signed and inscribed to Édith Fournier, Beckett's translator, by Eoin O'Brien, friend of Beckett. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth - the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient-enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has created new possibilities and impossibilities even in the matter of death and its definition, an age of transplants and life-support. But how does a writer give life to dismay at life itself, give life to ... Read more
Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth - the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient-enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has created new possibilities and impossibilities even in the matter of death and its definition, an age of transplants and life-support. But how does a writer give life to dismay at life itself, give life to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Clarendon Press Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198123583
SKU
KSG0029655
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