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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

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