Record details

• ISBN: 1559707720
• ISBN: 1559708239
• ISBN: 9781559707725
• ISBN: 9781559708234
• Physical Description: xx, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st English-language edition
• Publisher: New York : Arcade Pub., [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:

The first half is comprised of interviews with Samuel Beckett. The second half is reflections on him by various people.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Beckett Remembering -- Chapter 1 Young Samuel Beckett -- Chapter 2 Reluctant Teacher and Lecturer -- Chapter 3 Bad Years -- Part II Remembering Beckett -- Chapter 4 Post-war Success: The French Novels and En attendant Godot -- Chapter 5 Growing Fame -- Chapter 6 Beckett as Director -- Chapter 7 Memories of Beckett in London and Berlin -- Chapter 8 Beckett in the USA: Tributes and Memories -- Chapter 9 Last Twenty Years -- Chapter 11 And Finally... -- Appendix Beckett on Racine: The Unpublished Lecture Notes of Grace West (nee McKinley), 1931 306.

Awards Note:

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; A 2006 Financial Times Best Nonfiction Pick.

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Subject:

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Interviews.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Friends and associates.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Stage history.
Authors, French > 20th century > Interviews.
Authors, Irish > 20th century > Interviews.
Irish > France > Interviews.

Genre:

Festschriften.
Interviews.