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Samuel Beckett's first novel and ?literary landmark? (St. Petersburg Times ), Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a wonderfully savory introduction to the Nobel Prize?winning author. Written in the summer of 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was poor and struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. Later on, Beckett would call the novel ?the chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts.? When he submitted it to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous, or too risky; it was never published during…mehr

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Samuel Beckett's first novel and ?literary landmark? (St. Petersburg Times ), Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a wonderfully savory introduction to the Nobel Prize?winning author. Written in the summer of 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was poor and struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. Later on, Beckett would call the novel ?the chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts.? When he submitted it to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous, or too risky; it was never published during his lifetime. As the story begins, Belacqua?a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba??wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final 'relapse into Dublin'? (The New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and visibly influenced by Joyce, Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a work of extraordinary virtuosity. Beckett delights in the wordplay and sheer joy of language that mark his later work. Above all, the story brims with the black humor that, like brief stabs of sunlight, pierces the darkness of his vision.
Autorenporträt
Samuel Beckett, geb. am 13. April 1906 in Foxrock, Dublin, wuchs in einem bürgerlich protestantischen Elternhaus auf. Zwischen 1923 und 1927 studierte er Romanistik am Trinity College in Dublin. Nach Abschluss seines Studiums ging er nach Paris und lernte dort James Joyce kennen. Erste Gedichte und Essays entstanden. Er kehrte 1930 kurzzeitig nach Dublin zurück, um am Trinity College zu unterrichten. In den folgenden Jahren wechselte er immer ohne Geld und unter Depressionen leidend zwischen Dublin, London und Paris. Beckett reiste durch Europa, er besuchte Deutschland mehrere Male, bevor er sich 1937 auf Dauer in Paris niederließ. In diesem Jahr lernte er seine spätere Frau, die Pianistin Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil kennen. Beide schlossen sich der Résistance an und konnten sich nur durch Flucht in unbesetztes Gebiet vor der Gestapo retten. Im Roussillon kamen sie bei Bauern unter. Nach Kriegsende begann Beckett auf französich zu schreiben, er wendete sich dem Theater zu. Die Urau

fführung von "En attendant Godot" fand am 3. Januar 1953 unter der Regie von Roger Blin im Theâtre de Babylone statt, Beckett wurde über Nacht berühmt, zum ersten Mal hatte er auch finanziell Erfolg. 1969 erhielt Beckett den Literaturnobelpreis. Er starb am 22. Dezember 1989 in Paris.