Samuel Beckett Libros

Con motivo del centenario de Samuel Beckett, Tusquets Editores publica sus principales obras teatrales en un solo volumen. Se destacan "Eleutheria", "Esperando a Godot" y "Fin de partida", que muestran la evolución de su obra y su impacto en el teatro contemporáneo, junto a otras piezas y guiones.

"Con El innombrable se cierra la gran trilogía iniciada con Mohillo y continuada con Malone muere ambas publicadas asimismo en esta colección, punto culminante del largo proceso de desintegración y pérdida del yo a través del cual los personajes de Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) quedan reducidos al discurso inconexo de una conciencia separada del mundo exterior y disociada incluso de su propia base corporal. Alegoría grotesca y patética de la impotencia humana, el ente anónimo, paralítico e informe que monologa de manera obsesiva a lo largo de las páginas de la novela arrastra una existencia puramente vegetativa, condenado por siempre a escuchar el resonar incesante de su propia voz. Nadie ha logrado expresar con tanta fuerza señala Frederich R. Kari en las páginas que sirven de prólogo a esta edición la desesperación de una época que pone en duda no sólo ya el sentido de la existencia, sino incluso su misma realidad." -- Provided by publisher

Cuando en 1953 se estrenó en París Esperando a Godot, pocos sabían quién era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quizá, los que ya lo conocías como ex secretario de otro irlandés no menos genial: James Joyce. Por aquellas fechas, Beckett tenía escrita ya gran parte de su obra literaria; sin embargo, para muchos pasó a ser «el autor de Esperando a Godot». Se dice que, desde aquella primera puesta en escena ?que causó estupefacción y obtuvo tanto éxito? hasta nuestros días, no ha habido ano en que, en algún lugar del planeta, no se haya representado Esperando a Godot. El propio Beckett comentó en cierta ocasión, poco después de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1969, que Esperando a Godot era una obra «horriblemente cómica». Sí, todo lo horriblemente cómica que puede resultar la situación de dos seres cuya grotesca vida se funda en la vana espera de ese ser al que llaman Godot.

This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays - most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and his response to such fame. The volume provides detailed introductions which discuss Beckett's situation during the War and his crucial move into the French language, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.

Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Beckett's works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior editions have now been corrected in consultation with Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski.Beckett was interested in consciousness as a form of comedy close to tragedy and logic as a crime. He loved the tension in 'cogito ergo sum' and took a dim view of the connecting word, the 'ergo' in the equation. Cogitating was the nightmare from which his characters were trying to awake. Being was a sour trick played on them by some force with whom they were trying desperately not to reckon. Beckett produced infinite amounts of comedy about the business of thinking as boring, invalid, and quite unnecessary. His characters did not need to think in order to be, or be in order to think. They knew they existed because of the odd habits and deep discomforts of their bodies. I itch therefore I am." — Colm Toibin, from his Introduction

This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches into work for radio, film and, later, into television. It also marks his return to writing fiction, with his first major piece for a decade, Comment c'est (How It Is). Where hitherto he has been reticent about the writing process, now he devotes letter after letter to describing and explaining his work in progress. For the first time Beckett has a woman as his major correspondent: a relationship shown in his intense and abundant letters to Barbara Bray. The volume also provides critical introductions, chronologies, explanatory notes and profiles of Beckett's main correspondents.