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Beckett Remembering - Remembering Beckett
James Knowlson
其他書名
Unpublished Interviews with Samuel Beckett and Memories of Those Who Knew Him
出版Bloomsbury, 2007
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / French
ISBN07475856369780747585633
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2-cwOQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Samuel Beckett was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature; he was also famously reclusive. Here, in these intimate interviews conducted by his biographer, James Knowlson, Beckett and his family, friends and contemporaries reveal more of the human side of the writer than we have ever seen before.
In the first part of the book Beckett talks about his family, his early youth, his friendship with James Joyce and his Resistance work in Paris during the war, when he was forced to flee from the Gestapo and live out the remaining war years in the Vaucluse region of Southern France. In the second part, some of Beckett's closest friends remember him as a schoolboy, as a struggling writer, and then as an international success in the 1950s with his novels and plays, including the world-famous Waiting For Godot.
Among the contributors are actors he worked with, including Billie Whitelaw, Brenda Bruce and Jean Martin, and writers who felt the impact of his achievement, including Edward Albee, Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee and Aiden Higgins.
Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout, the book contains wonderful insights into Beckett's world.