Samuel Beckett / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views.

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, English.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Irish dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature for his highly acclaimed body of work, including the play Waiting for Godot, his best-known work and a staple of the modern stage. Half a century after it was first published, the play is considered the forerunner of the plays of Ionesco, Pinter, Stoppard, and others. Harold Bloom introduces this volume of new critical essays about Beckett and his works, which is complete with a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography of his works, and an index.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; Telling It How It Is; ""The More Joyce Knew the More He Could"" and ""More Than I Could""; The Syntax of Closure; Caliban/Clov and Leopardi's Boy; The Language of Dreams; Murphy and the World of Samuel Beckett; Disintegrative Process in Endgame; Beckett's ""Beckett""; ""Someone is looking at me still""; Chronology; Contributors; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94286-7

9786612942860

1-4381-3552-1

OCLC:

670412777