Samuel Beckett Libros

"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, casi nadie sabía quién era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quizá, los que ya lo conocían 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 aquellas primera puesta en escena --Que, realizada por el gran Roger Blin, causó tanta estupefacción y obtuvo tanto éxito-- hasta nuestros días, no ha habido año en que, en algún lugar de nuestro planeta, no se haya representado Esperando a Godot. ¡Más de cuarenta años en los escenarios del mundo! 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, a fin de cuentas, la angustiosa situación límite de dos seres cuya vida y grotesca solidaridad se forjan en la absurda y vana espera de es quién sabe qué (o quién) al que llaman Godot...

'Here is a book which, as soon as I could get sight of a copy, I could not stop myself reading straight through, nothing being more urgent to me ... The temptation is only to quote. There is so much here of great value to those who study Beckett ... Every word Beckett wrote as only he could write it. That is why, as Dan Gunn says in his excellent introduction to this final volume, though the writing of letters can seem like a diversion from, or even obstruction of, his work, 'the writing of letters is also that work'. Now we can read them. This is a great piece of publication.' David Sexton, The Evening Standard

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.

Fiction. The Trilogy has always been considered the central work of Samuel Beckett's fiction (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1969), the three novels that have been most admired and have received the greatest amount of critical comment, just as Waiting for Godot written in the same period of concentrated creativity between 1947 and 1949, is central to Beckett's drama. "Beckett's oeuvre towers above that of most of his peers, as of his forebears and followers, because it's such a model of integrity: the beauty that is truth" -- Michail Howowitz.

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.

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."A man speaking English beautifully chooses to speak in French, which he speaks with greater difficulty, so that he is obliged to choose his words carefully, forced to give up fluency and to find the hard words that come with difficulty, and then after all that finding he puts it all back into English, a new English containing all the difficulty of the French, of the coining of thought in a second language, a new English with the power to change English forever. This is Samuel Beckett. This is his great work. It is the thing that speaks. Surrender." — Salman Rushdie, from his Introduction

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue - delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty - of what might or might not an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again, where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature.