Samuel Beckett

Broschiertes Buch

More Pricks Than Kicks

Beschreibung

Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett's antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah.

Autor

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting forGodot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780802151377
• ISBN-10: 080215137X
• Artikelnr.: 22015840