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Damned to Fame

2004 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2004
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Damned to Fame by : James Knowlson

Download or read book Damned to Fame written by James Knowlson. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.

Damned to Fame

1997 Authors, French
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Release : 1997
Genre : Authors, French
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Book Synopsis Damned to Fame by : James Knowlson

Download or read book Damned to Fame written by James Knowlson. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of Waiting for Godot in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. James Knowlson is the general editor of The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett

1990 Authors, French
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Release : 1990
Genre : Authors, French
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Book Rating : 732/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Samuel Beckett by : Deirdre Bair

Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Deirdre Bair. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Images of Beckett

2003-09-11 Art
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Release : 2003-09-11
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Images of Beckett by : James Knowlson

Download or read book Images of Beckett written by James Knowlson. This book was released on 2003-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Beckett's biographer and friend and hitherto unknown photographs by one of the leading theatre photographers in the field.

Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett

2006 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2006
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett by : Samuel Beckett

Download or read book Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett written by Samuel Beckett. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first part of this book, Beckett, a notably reclusive man, talks candidly with his official biographer, James Knowlson, about his family, his youth, his school years in Dublin, his early life in Paris as lecteur at the famed Ecole Normale Superieure, his friendship with James Joyce, his work in the French resistance movement during the Nazi occupation, his precipitous flight from Paris when his involvement was discovered by the Gestapo, his clandestine years in the Vaucluse region of southern France, his postwar volunteer work with the Irish Red Cross Hospital in Saint-Lo, and his return to Paris in the late 1940s to resume his literary life." "In the second part, friends and colleagues share their memories of Beckett as a schoolboy, a teacher, a struggling young writer, and a sudden success in 1953 with the appearance of Waiting for Godot, which propelled him from virtual unknown to world-renowned. Actors with whom he worked, including Hume Cronyn, Jean Martin, Jessica Tandy, and Billie Whitelaw, relate their experiences; fellow playwrights and authors Edward Albee, Paul Auster, E. M. Cioran, J. M. Coetzee, Eugene Ionesco, Edna O'Brien, and Tom Stoppard speak of his work and its influence on theirs. One entire chapter is devoted to Beckett as director, for as time went on Beckett, first modestly, then authoritatively, oversaw the direction of many of his plays in France, Germany, and England."--BOOK JACKET.

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