5.2. samuel beckett
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Reading and Writing Skills for
Students of Literature in English:Postwar; Postmodern; Postcolonial
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline HurtleyBill Phillips
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Samuel Beckett
Breath (1969)
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
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Some of Beckett¶s plays
El eutheria (first play) (1947)
En attend ant God ot premiered in Paris (1953) Fi n d e Partie (1957)
Krapp¶s Last Tape (1958)
Happy Days (1961) P l ay (1964)
Breath (1969)
Not I (1973)
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Some of Beckett¶s plays
That Time and Footfall s (1976)
A Piece of Monol ogue (1979) Rockaby and Ohio Impromptu (1981)
Catastrophe (1982)
What Where (1983)
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Some of Beckett¶s prose works
More Pricks than Kicks (1934)
Murphy (1938)
Moll oy , Mal one meurt , L¶i nnomabl e
(1951)
Mercier et Camier (1973)
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Nobel Prize for
Literature (1969)
µMix a powerful imagination with a logic in absurdum, and the result
will be either a paradox or an Irishman. If it is an Irishman, you will
get the paradox into the bargain. Even theN
obel Prize in Literatureis sometimes divided. Paradoxically, this has happened in 1969, a single
award being addressed to one man, two languages and a third nation,
itself divided.¶
Presentation speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Swedish Academy
http://www.nobelprize.org
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Breath
'Breath' was written in response to
Kenneth Tynan's request for a piece
for his show Oh! Cal cutta! at New
York's Eden Theatre on 16 June1969. It lasts less than a minute
The text was originally published in
'Gambit', Vol. 4, No. 16 (1970). At the
time, it was considered as theculmination of Beckett's work
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Breath
The setting for Breath -
a Channel 4 production
(dir. Damien Hirst, 2000)
http://www.channel4.com/learning/main/net
notes/programid1681.htm
http://www.channel4.com/learning/main/net
notes/sectionid100664702.htm
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The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don't
want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out,
truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. Heis the most courageous, remorseless writer going and
the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am
grateful to him. He's not f---ing me about, he's not
leading me up any garden path, he's not slipping me a
wink, he's not flogging me a remedy or a path or a
revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he's not selling
me anything I don't want to buy ² he doesn't give a
bollock whether I buy or not ² he hasn't got his hand
over his heart. Well, I'll buy his goods, hook, line andsinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no
maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty.
His work is beautiful.
Harold Pinter
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Beckett¶s grave in Montparnasse
Cemetery, Paris
http://www.themodernword.com/Beckett/sb_grave.html