Samuel Beckett by Cronin, Isaac
Samuel Beckett by Cronin, Isaac

Samuel Beckett

Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers....
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SKU: 9780306808982
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Author: Isaac Cronin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Samuel Beckett by Cronin, Isaac

Samuel Beckett

Dhs. 183.35
Samuel Beckett by Cronin, Isaac

Samuel Beckett

Dhs. 183.35
Author: Isaac Cronin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a writer. Cronin explores how the sporty schoolboy of solid Protestant bourgeois stock became a prizewinning student at Trinity, flirted with scholarship, and, in Paris, found himself at the center of its literary avant-garde as an intimate friend of James Joyce. But he was a young man who struggled with complexities in his own nature as well as with problems of literary expression. In the small provincial city of Kassel, Germany, the cosmopolitan Beckett experienced a faltering entanglement with his cousin--one of the first in a series of problematic encounters with women. The war years, which he spent as a member of the Resistance and a refugee in the South of France, brought Beckett the self-probings and discoveries that led to the great works. Then, with his sudden and astonishing fame, the balloons of myth began to inflate and a stereotype was born--frozen in exile and enigma, solemnity and sanctity. Anthony Cronin bursts these balloons to see more clearly what lies behind. Without moralizing or psychologizing, without pretensions or piety, he uncovers the real Beckett, the way the life was lived, the way the art was made.

Author: Isaac Cronin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 05/07/1999
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.02w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780306808982

About the Author
Anthony Cronin is a poet, novelist, broadcaster, editor, and author of No Laughing Matter, a celebrated biography of Flann O'Brien. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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