Name: Trilogy
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Author: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9781857152364

Type

Physical Book

Author

Samuel Beckett

Publisher

Everyman's Library Ltd

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

476

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21x13 cm

Weight

0.56

ISBN13

9781857152364

Trilogy

Samuel Beckett (Author) · Everyman's Library Ltd · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Trilogy"

Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating trilogy represents the high-water mark of Modernism. Written in the late 1940s at the same time as Waiting for Godot - the Absurdist drama which brought the Irish writer international fame - these three desolate monologues on the human condition turn conventional first-person narrative upside down to disturbingly surreal effect and are illuminated by flashes of black humour.

In his distinctive prose, spare, neutral and elegant (he first wrote in French to better achieve this effect), Beckett shows, as no other author has ever done, human consciousness moving towards disintegration, defiantly pitting language, with all its deficiencies, against the ultimate silence.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, born on April 13, 1906 in Dublin and died on December 22, 1989 in Paris. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in the theater of the absurd. He studied at Trinity College in Dublin, where he specialized in Romance languages. After a period as a reader at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he settled permanently in France, a country that deeply marked his life and work.

Beckett wrote in both English and French, and his style is characterized by minimalism, black humor, and the exploration of themes such as despair, time, and the human condition. His most famous work, Waiting for Godot (1953), marked a milestone in contemporary theater by subverting traditional dramatic conventions. Other notable works include Endgame, Happy Days, and the novel trilogy consisting of Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

During World War II, he participated in the French Resistance. In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Beckett left a legacy that continues to challenge and inspire generations of readers and viewers.

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